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Document number: 9134
Date: 11 Sep 1866
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: OLIVER Daniel
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

11 Sept 1866

Sir/

I have been a good deal puzzled with your pretty little Monocot. I shd like to know what sort of a root it has.

It is apparently very near some Cape forms of Hypoxis, <1> – though as you remark it much resembles Barbacenia.

Shd you find it convenient to being a plant up to town with you next visit I shall be glad to examine it more thoroughly than I can well do in crushed specimens.

The Herbarium is the large building to the right just before reaching the principal Gates of the R. Gardens in Kew Green.

There I am to be found most of the day

I remain Sir
very truly yours

Daniel Oliver

H. Fox Talbot, Esq. &c &c

Envelope:

H. Fox Talbot, Esq. &c &c
Lacock
Chippenhamk Abbey

Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 09247.

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