Dear Henry
I hope you are multiplying your designs, & among them that of a new greenhouse. I shall then devote a larger portion of my tender young to your care.
Jane <1> & I go to Rollison’s <2> tomorrow – today to Knights – yesterday to Chelsea where I found only an Apothecaries Dinner going on!
We shall soon have an opportunity for Bertoloni <3> if you have any thing to say or send. Mr Herbert <4> is deep in Iridaceae & finds great confusion.
I am helping an interesting Traveller out to Abyssinia – have you any commands? When do you come up again?
I hope Ela, Rosamond & Maud <5> are all well.
Yr aff
W F S
Notes:
1. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874).
2. A nursery-garden, as was Knight’s. [See Doc. No: 03033].
3. Prof Antoine Bertoloni (1793–1868), Italian botanist.
4. William Herbert, Dean of Manchester (1778–1847), MP; clergy; botanist; linguist, he was an expert on Amaryllidaceae and Iridaceae.
5. Ela Theresa Talbot (25 Apr 1835 - 25 Apr 1893), WHFT's 1st daughter; Rosamond Constance Talbot (16 Mar 1837 - 7 May 1906), 'Rose'; 'Monie'; artist & WHFT's 2nd daughter; died & buried at San Remo, Italy, with a memorial at Lacock; Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, née Talbot (25 Feb 1839-1927), 'Tilly', WHFT's 3rd daughter; Maud was an alternative form of the name Matilda.