My dear Henry
I have such beauties of Flowers in blossom, that I wish you were here to admire them I enclose you a Leaf, which I want to know what it is – I can make nothing of it but Polypodium vulgare, but Withering does not allow that any one of them are in fructification in this month – Send me word directly, I am trying to make out some Mosses, but the Hypnums are most complex –
Yr Aff Aunt
C. Ilchester
Sherborne, Feby fourteen, 1815 Ilchester <1>
H. Talbot Esqr
Revd Dr Butlers
Harrow on the Hill
Middx
Feb. 14 – 1815
Notes:
1. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).