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Document number: 342
Date: 23 Jun 1838
Dating: no year - year supplied by Lady Hooker's indexing at RBG Kew
Recipient: HOOKER William Jackson
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection number: EL 11.149
Last updated: 1st May 2012

London
June 23

My Dear Sir

Mr Strangways <1> wishes to know what he shall do with a large roll of plates which is come for you from Tenore <2> at Naples –.

He has received a collection of Cacti from interior of Mexico, packed in moss & he wishes to know whether you would like to look over this moss in case there should be any new species among it.

Believe me Yours vy truly
H. F. Talbot

Notes:

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

2. Michel Tenore (1780–1861), Italian botanist & traveller.

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