B. S^{t <1>}

23 Dec^r

My dear Henry

I leave my Telescope ^<2> in Sackville St. ^<3> for you to try, when you have done with it send it back to 31. B. S^t. They made me pay four guineas duty on it.

I send also a packet of dry plants which if you have not time to look at here you can take to Lacock but I believe Jane & Emily ^<4> must share in them eventually.

I go down to Melbury ^<5> tonight

Y^r aff

W F S

I reopen this to say I leave a pile of botanical works for your inspection at B. S^t.

Henry F. Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
with a deal ^<6> box & two parcels

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Notes:

1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. See Doc. No: 02785.

3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

4. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874), and Amelia ‘Emily’ Matilda Murray (1795–1884), author.

5. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

6. Pine-board.