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Document number: 8608
Date: Wed 15 Oct 1862
Dating: HW corrected to calendar
Harold White: 16 Oct 1862
Postmark: Cambridge 15 Oct 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 22193
Collection number historic: LA62-60
Last updated: 17th February 2012

Trin Coll. <1>
Wednesday

My dear Father –

I send you a f wild flower which I gathered in my walk yesterday, as I wish to know what it is. But though I put it in water it has faded so that it does not look as it did. When I gathered it was [sic] very pretty: the petals something like those of a dandelion only blue & with their extremities finished & fringed in the same manner.

The stamina were of the same light blue as the flower and were lined lengthways with dark blue lines, and at their extremities there were a couple of thin horns which curled down on either side like those of Jupiter Ammon. It grew by the side of the road between the road & the footpath on the Barton road not far from Cambridge. I am sorry to see that there has been a very bad accident <2> on the Edinburgh & Glasgow railway near Wynchborough <3>.

I go in t to examination tomorrow at 9 oclock. Again at 1 oclock to 4 till 4. and on Friday from 9 to 11˝. –

Your affect son
Charles.

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
nr. Edinburgh

Notes:

1. Trinity College, Cambridge.

2. See The Glasgow Daily Herald, Thursday, 16 October 1862, p. 3, reporting that on Monday night, 13 October, two passenger trains ended up on the same track and, between Winchburgh and Linlithgow, ‘came into collision – engine to engine and bulk to bulk’, causing seventeen fatalities and terrible injuries among the survivors.

3. Winchburgh, approx. 4 miles S.W. of South Queensferry, Lothian.

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