B. St <1>
23 Decr
My dear Henry
I leave my Telescope <2> in Sackville St. <3> for you to try, when you have done with it send it back to 31. B. St. They made me pay four guineas duty on it.
I send also a packet of dry plants which if you have not time to look at here you can take to Lacock but I believe Jane & Emily <4> must share in them eventually.
I go down to Melbury <5> tonight
Yr aff
W F S
I reopen this to say I leave a pile of botanical works for your inspection at B. St.Henry F. Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
with a deal <6> box & two parcels
Notes:
1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.
2. See Doc. No: 02785.
3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
4. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874), and Amelia ‘Emily’ Matilda Murray (1795–1884), author.
5. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.
6. Pine-board.