TALBOT2022

Athenæum ¹

July 12^th

My Dear Talbot

I regretted much on calling at your house today to find that you had left London – It is so long since we had met that I was anxious to see you – and also wished to thn thank you for the copy of your works which you sent me. – The Tales ² I have not yet had time to peruse – in your proposals for reform I partly agree, tho’ I think that many difficulties would occur in your plan of balloting &^c but from what I have seen in our Northumberland Elections I am sure that an alteration is much needed –

I left for you at 31 Sackville S^{t 3} a copy of an Antiquarian Tract I lately edited. –

I wish you could in the course of this summer pay another visit to Northumberland, I should like to shew you some new localities for rare plants &^c I was lately in the upper part of Teesdale which is probably the best botanical district in England – Gentiana verna, Bartschia <sic> alpina, Equisetum variegatum, Thlaspi alpestre, Potentilla fruticosa, Juncus triglumis &^c and several rare musci &^c are there abundant. Last year I found in Yorkshire, Protococcus nivalis. – Have you seen D^r Grevilles ⁴ Algologia? – What a splendid work Wallichs ⁵ is – & Hookers ⁶ Icones filicum – I am sorry he has discontinued the Miscellanea botanica. – What do you think of his English flora? ⁷ –

Believe me
My Dear Talbot –
yours very truly

W. C. Trevelyan

Have you seen Johnsons Flora of Berwick on Tweed? ⁸ –

W. H. F. Talbot Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham