Monday June 25
My dear Cousin
You sent me a list of the names of the flowers which Elinor <1> brought in her hand from Lacock – I wish you would come and look round our garden – She was full of the pleasure her visit to you & her cousins afforded; and of admiration of the beauties and antiquities of Lacock – Your list is marked with some queries which I sympathize with – and shall try to answer – that which you call Chinese Daisy is known at Clemenstone (from whence we had it) as the Australian daisy – its real name I hear, is Vittadenia triloba
I agree with you in Corydalis nobilis and Oxalis floribunda – and should like to have the “Tecoma jasminiodes <sic> in a pot” – only I think it might travel without its pot – and I never grudge paying the carriage of plants!
I shall be delighted to have a visit from Ela and Charles <2> in August – and I only wish that Rosamond <3> could come now! Elinor would be so pleased to shew her many sketches to be made and the weather is so pleasant now our american <sic> plants are worth seeing – The Kalmias are good –
Your affte cousin
Emma Llewelyn
Notes:
1. Elinor Amy Llewelyn (1844–1887), daughter of WHFT’s cousin Emma Llewelyn, née Talbot.
2. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter, and Charles Henry Talbot (1842–1916), antiquary & WHFT’s only son.
3. Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2nd daughter.