[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.