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Document number: 162
Date:
Watermark: 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: acc27138
Last updated: 3rd November 2014

My dear Henry

I enclose you a fine fern genus unknown. Pray see if you can save any seed of your weeping Cypress for me as I am thinking of making an Arboretum.

We have still in flower a number of pretty things & shd have had more but for last weeks storms – Convolv. Cneorum is beautiful I never thought it so pretty before – several small Mesembs – Cistuses – Salvias Ruta albiflora – Cynanchum pilosum Crocuses, Statices, & other remnants of the summer.

How is it that in such a season as last one loses Teuchrium fruticans & retains Convol. Cneorum Italicus, Euphorbia dendroides & Pithyusa & barba jovis – all which grow together on the rocks of Amalfi?

I hope you are coming next with Horatia <1> before the weather changes again.

Yr Aff
W F S

Notes:

1. Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810–1851), WHFT’s half-sister.

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