Dear Henry

Your lilac flowers are very pretty – One of your specimens at Sir C. Lemons ^<1> – a sketch of Lacock Turret, just meets my idea – it is dark on a light ground^<2> which is the cloud: Pray save me the seed of Hesperis verna I know it well about Florence. Did I give you seed of Franginus oxyphylla, & Juniperus oxycedrus? I went with Jane to Rollisons ^<3> where we saw lovely achidea [sic] She talks of going abroad soon.

Yr Aff
W F S

Tell me what Euphorbias you have that you could spare me plants of in due season –

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Notes:

1. Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle.

2. This must be a photogenic drawing negative. Since this letter relates to Doc. No: 02902, it must be in 1839, although the image might have been from an earlier period. For an image matching this description, see Larry J. Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pl. 4.

3. Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796–1874). Rollisons was a nursery-garden. See Doc. No: 02902.