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Document number: 843
Date: 17 Jan 1819
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TREVELYAN Walter Calverley
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 7th April 2014

Wallington
Jan 17 – 1819 –

Dear Talbot

Not having heard from you, as you gave me reason to expect, I hope your silence does not arise from indisposition.

I leave Wallington on tuesday [sic], for Oxford. The weather has been remarkably mild, but there was a slight sprinkling of snow on the night of the 15teenth.

The Ulex Europæus is in full blossom, I cut a piece measuring 10 inches & a half in circumference, & I have also got rather an antique botanical specimen; in opening the mummy of an Ibis I found the a flowering spike of a grass.

We have since we had the pleasure of seeing you here, added to our Botanical collection, a small Hortus siccus of Botany Bay plants, brought from thence by Captain, afterwards Admiral Ball, (whose death you may have lately seen in the papers) about the year 1788; and also about three or four thousand species of seeds; from Lady Wilsons collection.<1>

Did you ever see [illegible deletion] Lichen [Margissimus?] in fructification, I obtained some specimens the other day.

Shortly before I left Oxford, I purchased a work by Scheuzer, on fossil plants with some excellent representations of various species.<2>

Believe me Yours very sincerely
W C Trevelyan

W. J. F. Talbot Esqre
31. Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London


Notes:

1. Jemima Wilson, née Belford (1777–1823).

2. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), Swiss savant, and geologist; Herbarium Diluvianum (Zürich: Tiguri Gessner, 1709).

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