Abbot^{by <1>}
Monday 16 May

Dear Henry

You will have rec^d a letter from me ^<2> in S. Street. ^<3> I hear you have been so good as to prepare some Calotypes for Germany – if you go through Frankfort, will you leave them there with M^r Kuper, ^<4> who is much interested about them & will keep them for me. If you do not go thro’ Frankfort, either way, it will be better to leave them for me in 31. B. St. ^<5>

What route do you take? Try the road by the Maine thro’ Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg, & Mergentheim or Rothenburg towards Nuremberg – the Odenwald will be in beauty at this season – We have lots of Mesembs – Alliums – Dianthus – & other fashionables in full blow – do you know the Libertias?

Y^r Aff
W F S

How I wish you could return by Wurtzburg Fulda – Cassel – Dusseldorf or Cologne – & see Wilhelmshohe & M^r Wilds rockgarden at Cassel if you take the upper Rhine go to see Insel Meinau & Heiligenberg, the Nurgthal to Baden.

H. F. Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
London

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Notes:

1. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. Presumably Doc. No: 04504.

3. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

4. See Doc. No: 04504.

5. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.