TALBOT1281

[This letter is possibly a fragment - with an apparently unrelated list by WHFT attached - perhaps simply a mixing up of two documents]

Florence
June 29 1825

My dear Henry

Raddi ¹ applauds your idea of going to Brazil very much – I went with him yesterday to Giardio Torrigiani & astonished the Gardener by telling him we had in England Rhododendrons as large as their oleanders – no plant is named right (if named at all) in this country, it is the greatest job to make them out – Pray use your influence with all cultivators to make them plant out of doors the shrubs we see here – Cassias, mimosas, & tree Lavateras the species of which it is beyond me to make out. I believe they are all Unguiculata. Here they are all maritima do you know Euphorbia Pithyusa? May not Portlandica be merely a variety of it? Pray make your friend Van Diemen ² send home everything – they will be semihardy in England – it is odd Cape plants do so ill in general in Italy till you come to the hottest parts of it. – John ³ is picking primroses in Bithynia

Henry Talbot Esq.
31 Sackville Street
London

[On separate sheet, in WHFT’s hand:]

Contents of Case ⁴

Harrow Prize Sophocles	Horace (Trevelyan)	Apollo Rhodius
Large Plant press	Greek Roots. 3 of them	Grabius Spicilegium 1.2.
Daubuz Josephus 5	M[illegible] & R[illegible]	Alix de Anno Natali
Collets Logarithms	Savi 6 Vol 1.2.	Usserius 7 de LXX
Harrow Æschylus	Brunck Aristophanes 8 3.2 1.4	Perdono di Assisi
Bayleys Heb. Grammar 9	Fontenelle Eloges 10 1.2	Taschenbuch für [Reisende?]
Vocab. des Homonymes	Lettere Familiari	Novelle di Soave
German Bible	Uss. de LXX	Mœurs des Israëlites
Encyclop. Grammatical	Pollini 11 Vol. 1.	Allioni 12 Specimen
Justus Lipsius 13	Philo	Allioni Auctarium
Swiss Scenery	Sibyllæ lib XIV	Maratti 14
7 Nos of Bibl. Universelle	Fl. Pedemontane 1.2.3. 15	Risso 16 Crustacés
Desf. Fl: Atlantica 17 1.2
Received Right from Genoa

July 1825