Glasgow.
Nov. 30.
My dear Sir
You have heard I doubt not doubt of poor Drummond’s 1 death which took place in Cuba. A little before that event I received the last of his collections which are the best of all: from the interior of Texas in Mexico. At length, after infinite labor, I have arranged them, divided them among the Subscribers & numbered them & sent them off. Your set is gone to the care of Mr Hunneman, 2 9, Queen street Soho & you will perhaps be good enough to send there for them; or inform Mr H. where he shall send them. There is also a a [sic] small parcel from Apalachicola in East Florida. You who are fond of cultivating plants may probably find some good seeds among them, especially of Phlox Drummondii & Pentstemon Cobæa & [Mesuazenum?]: – 3 splendid species.
You will probably have seen by my Companion to the Botl Magazine 3 that I am getting on with my list of Drummond’s Louisiana & United states collections. Then will follow the Texas ones. The Scrophulariaceæ Bentham 4 is at this time preparing for publication; & the Tribe Gerardieæ will appear in the Jany & Feby numbers of my Journal. 5
Do you know Mr Jos. Woods, 6 who is preparing a work on Europæan plants & who appears to know the Italian ones remarkably well? I hear that a M. Des Bieux has been botanizing, & successfully in Spain, & has just arrived at Paris with his collections. I trust to be able to obtain a set of them, for I am told they are to be sold like Drummond’s.
Believe me to be, my dear Sir, most faithfully Yours,
W. J. Hooker.
H. F. Talbot Esqre
29. Abemarle [sic] street
London.
Lacock Abbey 7
Chippenham
Wilts
Enqre 8 at Lady Feilding’s
31 Sackville Str
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