Naples

14 July

Dear Henry

As you live at N^o 31 ^<1> I cannot help troubling you with a commission at N^o 32, especially as it is a Botanical one – You owe me a letter at least so I say no more –

Yours Aff^te

W F S

I found near Rome Linum aureum & Silene trinervia & at Nemi a tall Lavatera like a hollyhock – & at Mola Lonicera implexa! Do you know Salvia bicolor?

Pray send me some seed of our wild Scabiosa columbaria it is much wanted here as nobody seems to be sure of it Tenore ^<2> has some very curious Scabiosas from Calabria he is making a late tour in Abruzzo to gather seeds –

Henry F. Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street
London
W F S ^<3>

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Notes:

1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

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

3. Letter not franked, but initialled by WFS, probably for diplomatic bag.