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Document number: 8854
Date: 26 Jul 1864
Postmark: Dorchester 26 Jul 1864
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA64-56
Last updated: 17th April 2012

Melbury <1>
26 July

My dear Henry

We are just off to Redlynch <2> – tomorrow we go to London for ten days – & return to Redlynch – when I will ask you if you can let us stop & pay you a visit at Lacock, as we pass by Chippenham – going on by a late train to Redlynch in the evening.

I enclose you 3 of our new annuals all from Greece I think<.> I recommend to order the monthly sheet called Botanists Chronicle successor to the Phytologist <3> – It costs a penny a month or a shilling a year. In it I found an offer of Greek seeds from Athens – so I ordered some thro’ the Editor.

Mr A. Irvine
48 Manor Street
Chelsea

who seems to have good correspondents – He is a sort of successor to Pamplin <4> late of Frith St Botanical bookseller as he was to old Hunnemann <5> & sells books, seeds, & specimens.

We have a pretty red Irid <6> – Rigidella flammea in the G. house – new to me.

Yours
Wm

[envelope:]
Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham


Notes:

1. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

2. A Strangways property in Somerset. The earls of Ilchester were also barons of Redlynch.

3. Alexander Irvine (1793–1863), The Phytologist – a botanical journal, London, William Pamplin, 1855–1863.

4. William Pamplin, bookseller and publisher of botanical journals and smaller botanical works. See Doc. No: 07889.

5. James Hunneman, London nurseryman.

6. Sc. Iridaceae – the family to which Rigidella belongs.

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