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Document number: 00142
Date: Oct 1835
Dating: reference to Malison
Watermark: 1835
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MURRAY Amelina Matilda
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 22nd January 2011

Dear Henry –

the salary you offer is so very low for a professed gardener that I think my good friend Malison <1> & his nice little Swiss wife would not be able to get on upon it permanently – but in his present unfortunate circumstances (which when you know the whole story you will feel as I do, has been owing to his good instead of bad conduct) I think it might be for his good & for the benefit of your garden, if he came to you for a time – he is really a good botanist I believe, & certainly takes excellent care of seeds & young plants – With Sir Samuel Scott he had 25s a week a house & coals – his wife would not accompany him if he took a temporary engagement, they have one little boy & a little girl in Swisserland [sic] –

Yrs truly
A. M Murray


Notes:

1. For dating, see Doc. No: 03158. Cornelius Fitzsimmons, Scottish gardener at Lacock Abbey, announced that he was leaving in Autumn 1835 but stayed on in some capacity until summer 1836.