My Dear Talbot –

Many thanks to you for the very beautiful & interesting collection of your photogenic drawings which you were so good as to send me to Edinburgh, whence they have been forwarded to me here –

I have gathered in the neighborhood several very curious varieties of the Scolopendrum vulgare, of which I shall endeavor to photograph a series when I return to Edinburgh & if I succeed will send you a copy –^<1>

Do you want a specimen of Triticum cristatum? it is abundant in one locality on this coast, the only station I believe for it in Britain. –

Believe me Yours most truly
W. C. Trevelyan

Arbroath
8^ber 22^d 1839

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
31 Sackville S^t
Piccadilly
London
Laycock abbey ^<2>
Chippenham
Wilts

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Notes:

1. Trevelyan actively supported his long-time friend, exhibiting WHFT's photographs in Edinburgh in December 1839 and in Newcastle the following year. Although it is not known if he did photogenic drawings, he got a calotype camera and used it later. His wife, Lady Paulina Trevelyan, became quite serious about calotyping and collecting photographs.

2. Readdressed in another hand.