TALBOT2713

Glasgow
June 15. 1833

My dear Sir

I ought to have thanked you ere this for more than one kind communication: but I have now my lectures to engage me in addition to my other employments, & two days in the week I have to go to the coast ¹ to pass a few hours with my family.

I did not however accept of your offer of the Fern, ² because I do not like to rob you of a scarce plant, nor to break up any portion of your very nice collection of Brazilian species ³. If there chance to be two specimens, then I will accept one; & if it is too large for a frank it may be left with Hunneman ⁴.

I had never seen Sedum hexapetalum till you sent it to me. It is however figured in the Bot^l Magazine ⁵ & in the Register ⁶ too; though under another name, that of S. cæruleum, of Vahl. In the former work at t. 2224; in the latter at t. 520. It is also the S. azureum of Desfontaines ⁷.

I almost despair of finding a Bookseller for my Miscellany ⁸ though I offer all my labor for nothing. It is too bad that our country cannot maintain a respectable botanical Journal.

Most faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker.

P.S. I hope you received a figure & description of the Arabis ⁹ from Curtis ¹⁰ for your friend: as I desired him to send it. If not write to him at Glazenwood, by Coggeshall & say how he had best send it to you. Perhaps in a frank, neatly folded twice.

H. F. Talbot Esq^re M.P.
29. Albemarle street ¹¹
London.