Dear Henry,
Can you at all make out the enclosed gentian it was nearly red when fresh & fringed not like ciliata but Amarella & grew very low down the mountains on rocky banks. it must be a late flowering one as Nici were many in bud & none in seed.
There is a certain Divisioni a Dalmatian Curator horti botanici at Padua which is a tolerably good one, who makes a voyage to Dalmatia every year in quest of plants - he has brought a hederafolium variety of Cylclamen Europodium - I believe there is no distinct hederafolium but that all in turns put on that appearance in different parts of Europe in order to be Crux botanica.
The weather now | 8 Octr | is detestable as bad as Novr last year at Florence to my great annoyance as it breaks up the season the roads & my time all together. I have a letter from Barbini offering his 4 pictures which I believe I told you of for 50 £ - he asked 96 to which I vouchsafe no answer as I want all my money for travelling. I drove such a hard bargain with Nici that he has left me alone too & I dare say sold his Garafalino to some other traveller. His [illegible] Corregio you will certainly see when it is the next time you got to Bologna if he does not lower his prices.
Yours affly
WTHFS
If you have an opportunity to ask Jane if she ever received & what she did with a book of sketches in the Capathians & which I sent to her in London in the Spring or Winter
Henry Talbot Esq
31 Sackville St
London