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Document number: 02586
Date: 07 Feb 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HOOKER William Jackson
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st May 2012

Glasgow.
Feb. 7. 1833

Many thanks my dear Sir, for the flower of the Tropæolum tricolor & of the Arabis rosea. The former I have already figured in the Botl. Magazine, <1> the latter I should much wish to figure. Perhaps you could obtain for me an entire specimen with root-leaves & it would travel well under one of your covers. It seems to be at this time in an excellent state for drawing, having both flowers & young fruit.

I have not been unmindful of your wishes with respect to Drummonds <2> plants, & about 3 weeks ago I sent your share to London, <3> requesting Mr Lindley <4> to forward it to you.

Very faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker.

H. F. Talbot Esqre M.P.
Lacock Abbey
nrChippenham
Wilts
31 Sackville Street <5>
London


Notes:

1. William Jackson Hooker and others, Curtis’s botanical magazine … a new edition … (London: Curtis, and Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper).

2. Thomas Drummond (1793-1835), Scottish botanical collector; died in Cuba in early March 1835.

3. See Doc. No: 02567.

4. Prof John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist.

5. Readdressed in another hand.