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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Knights
Date:
21 October 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
No summary available.
JSH sends list of plants from the Hitcham village herbarium and adds last programme of village horticultural society. Discusses receiving material for Ipswich and Cambridge museums and arrangement to send Balfour a section of Dracaena from La Orotava.
Strong desire for letters. Misses family. Emptiness of 'civilized' life. Encourages IH's expression of feminine feelings. Concern about Napoleon III, England's national debt, and America's 'vain school-boy-ism.'