Dear Henry

I have just turned up a dirty old pamphlet which however may have some interest with regard to your experiments –

I hear there are parcels coming to me from Bertoloni ^<1> – & I have received three baskets or rather cane cages of Orchideæ from Guatemala

Y^rs
W F Strangways

As I sent you Pine seed from Persia ^<2> to Newcastle ^<3> so I send some from Cuba to Birmingham ^<4> arrived today –

How come you to let M^r Chance ^<5> into your Mathematical Committee?

Fanny ^<6> has found Monotropa Hipopitys near Blandford

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Notes:

1. Prof Antoine Bertoloni (1793–1868), Italian botanist.

2. Although the seed originated in Afghanistan it would have been sent to WFS from Persia through his diplomatic contacts. [See Doc. No: 00161].

3. See Doc. No: 03633.

4. The BAAS had met in Newcastle the previous year. WHFT took full advantage of the annual meeting in Birmingham in August 1839 by exhibiting 93 specimens of negatives and positives. They were listed in a pamphlet, A Brief Description of the Photogenic Drawings Exhibited at the Meeting of the British Association, at Birmingham, in August, 1839, by H. F. Talbot, Esq..

5. James Timmins Chance. [See Doc. No: 03915].

6. A daughter of the Rev the Hon Charles Fox Strangways.