39 Paternoster Row London
Dec 8th 1829
Mr Henry Fox TalbotSir
We have duly received your letter <1> relative to a parcel received for you from the continent, & beg to inform that the parcel has been forwarded to us by Messrs Astasia & Fontaine of Manheim with directions to apply to you for payment of the goods with the expenses incurred upon them: a copy of the invoice we annex. We shall feel obliged if you will let us know soon as convenient whether we are to forward them to you or how we shall dispose of them.
Waiting your answer
We remain Sir
Your obedient Servants
Longman Rees & Co
per Jno. Hart
P.S We shall send to A & F in two days time so that an answer by return will be waiting| 1 Icones selectæ planterum Fasc <2> 1 |  | 4··10·0 |
| 1 Martius Nuova genera <3> No 3 Fasc 1 | ||
| Expenses on the above – | £ 4· 10 |
Mr Henry Fox Talbot
Post Office
Stamford
Notes:
1. Letter not located.
2. Dr Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), German botanist, Icones selectae Plantarum Cryptogamicarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis 1817–1820… (Monachii: 1827).
3. Nova genera et species plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX (Monachii: 1824–1829, 4 vols.).