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Document number: 9385
Date: 29 Jun 1867
Dating: RBGE Balfour dated 1868 but not possible - see 09247,09252
Recipient: BALFOUR John Hutton
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Collection number: Balfour Corr v. XI (no #)
Last updated: 25th March 2012

June 29 1868 <1>

My Dear Sir

I am going on the Continent next Friday or Saturday to spend the summer and perhaps also the autumn & winter. If you should be able before that time to inform me of the safe arrival of my plant, I mean that the journey has not checked its flowering – I shall be glad. My address is Athenæum Club, London.<2>

I have a plant which I hope will flower next year very finely, & I will then take it to London to be figured – I should not wish a figure to be taken from the plant I sent you because it is only half grown and “pauciflorus” <3>

Yours vy truly
H. F. Talbot

Professor Balfour

[note added in Balfour's hand:]1868
Fox Talbot

Notes:

1. ‘June 29’ is written in WHFT’s hand; ‘1868’ is written in an unknown hand, perhaps in response to the dating added by Balfour.

2. Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London: WHFT’s club; a gentleman’s club composed primarily of artists and scientists.

3. with few flowers

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