TALBOT1471

Norwich

Aug. 29. 1826.

Dear Sir

I received your obliging letter ¹ this day, as well as the book from Prof^r Bertoloni, ² for both which I beg leave to return my best thanks.

I also received in due course your two letters ³ from Corfu, rich in botanical information. –

If you would send me specimens of any of your plants that want determination I would carefully compare them with mine & Sibthorp’s, ⁴ though I could not promise to work at them immediately. I must devote my time to my own Flora, ⁵ so as to be beforehand with the printing of the 4^th volume. If however they are not very numerous, & you wish to prepare your paper for an early meeting of Linn. Soc^y, ⁶ I will look at them as soon as possible.

We are going to Lowestoft for 2 or 3 weeks, after which I hope to be settled at home, & to have no interruption to my own pursuits.

I do not wonder that you have found in the Ionian isles many plants that Sibthorp did not meet with, but I think you mention more than one as new (in your letters) that are in Sibthorp – as Phalaris intriculata, which you will find under Alopecurus.

I trust you will look at my English Flora before you undertake the Umbelliferæ. ⁷ I want to arrange the foreign ones, but have not time at present. Sprengel ⁸ makes great mistakes, & Hoffmann ⁹ more.

M^r D. Don, ¹⁰ who has been a few days with me, will take this letter to town. –

I hope another year will be more propitious to our meeting.

Lady Smith ¹¹ joins in best comp^ts
with dear Sir

Yr very obed^t serv^t

J. E. Smith.

I am very glad to hear you intend to favour the Linn. Soc. with a paper.

W H F Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street.