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Document number: 00045
Date: Sat Aug 1837
Dating: almost certainly in response to 17 Aug 1837 doc 03552
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: LINDLEY John
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

My Dear Sir

I am sorry to say that the plants came in sad condition. The weather was so dry & the paper in which they were packed so thin that they are quite shrinked. I have been coaxing the Dianthus <1> with all possible care, & I hope to recover it: but as for the others all I can tell you is that the Lysimachia is L. dubia, & the Composite plant without any ray, & with large downy heads Conyza <2> chilensis.

Yours faithfully

John Lindley

Saturday

Notes:

1. Probably the one referred to in Doc. No: 03552 of 17 April 1837.

2. See Doc. No: 03605.