May 22. Wed^y E^vg

My dear Henry

You kindly promised some Cuttings of the Bomaria & Clerodendron, so I write to say that as we are going to London next Tuesday, I sh^d be specially grateful if you could send them off subito-subitio, as they say in Italy, that I may receive them before our departure. I conclude you to be now at Lacock as you said you were to leave Edinburgh last week. We have taken 72 South Audley Street for 6 weeks, so you will find us there if you should come to London. We are perished here & I am not able to look at all the nice Irises from poor Uncle W^m & Mary Talbot excepting thro’ the window – & I hear the Cuckoo under the same unfavorable circumstances! It is hower quite as cold in Dorsetsh^e as I find by a letter received from Moreton today.

Y^rs Aff^y
H G Mundy

Please to let your Gardener send the cuttings with a bit of old hard wood

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq^re.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham