Queen Square <Place?> Westⁿ

Oct 24 1840

My dear Sir

I have now unpacked the box of plants from Sims ^<1> herbarium which you were kind enough to send me – and although as you say a considerable number of the parcels contain but little they being apparently the <refuse?> from which he had selected the best to lay down in his general herbarium glued upon small white paper – yet there are also some parcels containing very fine specimens of Guiana and other S. American plants which are at the moment particularly valuable to me – If therefore you are still disposed so to do and if it be not giving you too much trouble I should be exceedingly obliged by your sending me the remainder

Ever yours sincerely

George Bentham

H. F. Talbot Esq^r

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Notes:

1. Probably John Sims (sic) (1749–1831) who edited Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1801–1826).