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Document number: 3437
Date: 17 Jan 1837
Recipient: HOOKER William Jackson
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection number: EL 9.312
Last updated: 4th January 2013

Lacock Abbey, Chippenham
Janry 17th 1837

My Dear Sir

I am about to trouble you with an enquiry which I trust your kindness will excuse – I have received a letter from Glasgow signed Alexr Baillie informing me that John Reid <1> the young man whom you recommended to me as gardener, has a wife living in Glasgow whom he has deserted, & left in distress – Reid being questioned on the subject denies that he [illegible deletion] is married, and says he knows nothing whatever of the writer Alexr Baillie nor has received any previous letter from him (much less six, as the writer asserts) – Will you therefore have the kindness to cause enquiries to be made at the house whence this letter purports to come, to ascertain what degree of truth there is in the statement. – The woman alluded to must state when & where she was married, & then a reference to the Parish Register would easily confirm or disprove the fact. Reid has conducted himself well since he has been in my service. I enclose the letter in question, which mentions the writer’s residence.

I am very much pleased with the first part of your Icones Plantarum; <2> altho’ I should doubt whether the Musci Indici are all good species – The name of Desfontainea ought to be changed, in the first place because it is barbarous, containing the Article des; & in the next place because it has already been applied to quite a different plant, the Fontanesia phillyreoides –

I hope you received some seeds which I sent you <3> Some time ago of Strelitzia alba, and of the Texas Arenaria or Spergulopsis oligandra

Believe me to remain Dear Sir Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

I have got some curious Cruciferæ in flower in the greenhouse, Lepidium Menziesii Senebiera linoides, & Thlaspi umbella[tum] <4>

1837 London January eighteen W.F. Strangways <5>
Sir W. Hooker
Glasgow

[on verso in WHFT’s hand:]
Sir W. Hooker
Glasgow


Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 03223.

2. William Jackson Hooker, Icones plantarum; or figures … of new or rare plants … (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837–1854).

3. See Doc. No: 03387.

4. Text torn away under seal.

5. William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (1795–1865), botanist, art collector & diplomat.

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