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Document number: 01281
Date: 29 Jun 1825
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA25(MW)-33
Last updated: 20th February 2012

[This letter is possibly a fragment - with an apparently unrelated list by WHFT attached - perhaps simply a mixing up of two documents]

Florence
June 29 1825

My dear Henry

Raddi <1> applauds your idea of going to Brazil very much – I went with him yesterday to Giardio Torrigiani & astonished the Gardener by telling him we had in England Rhododendrons as large as their oleanders – no plant is named right (if named at all) in this country, it is the greatest job to make them out – Pray use your influence with all cultivators to make them plant out of doors the shrubs we see here – Cassias, mimosas, & tree Lavateras the species of which it is beyond me to make out. I believe they are all Unguiculata. Here they are all maritima do you know Euphorbia Pithyusa? May not Portlandica be merely a variety of it? Pray make your friend Van Diemen <2> send home everything – they will be semihardy in England – it is odd Cape plants do so ill in general in Italy till you come to the hottest parts of it. – John <3> is picking primroses in Bithynia

Henry Talbot Esq.
31 Sackville Street
London

[On separate sheet, in WHFT’s hand:]

Contents of Case <4>

Harrow Prize Sophocles Horace (Trevelyan) Apollo Rhodius
Large Plant press Greek Roots. 3 of them Grabius Spicilegium 1.2.
Daubuz Josephus <5> M[illegible] & R[illegible] Alix de Anno Natali
Collets Logarithms Savi <6> Vol 1.2. Usserius <7> de LXX
Harrow Æschylus Brunck Aristophanes <8> 3.2 1.4 Perdono di Assisi
Bayleys Heb. Grammar <9> Fontenelle Eloges <10> 1.2 Taschenbuch für [Reisende?]
Vocab. des Homonymes Lettere Familiari Novelle di Soave
German Bible Uss. de LXX Mœurs des Israëlites
Encyclop. Grammatical Pollini <11> Vol. 1. Allioni <12> Specimen
Justus Lipsius <13> Philo Allioni Auctarium
Swiss Scenery Sibyllæ lib XIV Maratti <14>
7 Nos of Bibl. Universelle Fl. Pedemontane 1.2.3. <15> Risso <16> Crustacés
Desf. Fl: Atlantica <17> 1.2
Received Right from Genoa

July 1825


Notes:

1. Joseph (Giuseppe) Raddi (1770–1829), Italian botanist.

2. Evidently a South African contact of WTFS.

3. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.

4. See Doc. No: 01287, and Doc. No: 01297.

5. Charles Daubuz (1673–1717), Pro testimonio Flavii Josephi de Jesu Christo … (London: 1706).

6. Cornelius Bayley (1751–1812), An entrance into the sacred language: containing the necessary rules of Hebrew grammar in English …, (London: T. Longman, 1782).

7. Justus Lipsius (1547–1606). Probably Epistolarum selectarum chilias… (Geneva: 1609).

8. René Louiches Desfontaines (1750–1833), French botanist. Flora Atlantica.

9. Gaetano Savi (1769–1844). The work may be his Lezioni di botanica, (Florence: Presso Molini, 1811).

10. Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), ed. [with Latin translation], Aristophanis Comœediæ (Strasbourg: Bauer & Treuttel, 1781).

11. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), Histoire du renouveillement de l’Académie royale des Sciences en 1699 et les éloges historiques de tous les Académiciens mort depuis ce renouvellement … (Amsterdam: De Coup, 1709).

12. Ciro Pollini (1782–1833). Probably his Flora Veronensis (Verona: 1822–1824).

13. Probably Carlo Allioni (1725–1804), Flora Pedemontana (Turin: 1785).

14. James Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of Armagh, De Græca Septuaginta Interpretum Versione Syntagma (1655). See also above: ‘Uss. de LXX’.

15. Carlo Allioni (1725–1804), botanist. [See above].

16. Giovanni Francesco Maratti (d. 1777), botanist. Published, among other works, a Flora Romana (Rome: Joseph Salviucci, 1822).

17. See Doc. No: 01099.