31 B. St. <1>
2 March /43
Dear Henry -
Where are you?
I shall soon be going to Frankfort. Tell me which is the region of the high Alps best worth visiting in a botanical point of view, nearest to Frankfort - I must not be in Switzerland or Italy, as I may not pass the bounds of the Ger: Confederation - & which is the best month for the Alpine Flora, which I have never seen.
I breakfasted with Bunsen <2> yesterday who enquired much after you on the part of Lepsius - who I find is son of the Gothic Antiquarian of Saxony <3> He has sent Bunsen some very pretty drawings a View from the top of the pyramid - & a copy of an inscription in Hieroglyphs in praise of the King & Prussia which they have set up inside.
Do you belong to the Camden Society <4> of Cambridge they might print some of your old MSS - very well - I wrote to you some time ago to tell you of the calotype copy of the Chinese Treaty <5> made at the F.O. <6>
Lepsius I believe wants some Calotype paper -
When do you come up?
Yrs Aff
W F S
Notes:
1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.
2. Chevalier Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1761-1860), German diplomat and scholar; Prussian Ambassador in London from 1841-1854; created Freiherr von Bunsen in 1857.
3. Dr Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), German Egyptologist. He spent the years 1842-1845 on an archaeological expedition to Egypt and the Sudan. His father, Karl Peter Lepsius (1775-1853) was a noted antiquarian.
4. Founded in 1838 for the publication of historical documents.
5. See Doc. No: 04713.
6. The Foreign Office.