Glasgow.
Ju nely 26. 1834.
Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your letters & for your present of the interesting Ionian plants, which I have just received with a great box of other things from Hunneman.1 Several of them are quite new to my Herbarium & as soon as ever I can get access to my books & specimens I shall give you my opinion upon such as you appear doubtful about: but at this moment I am engaged in removing to a larger house near the Botanic Garden,2 being fairly driven from my present one by the great increase of my plants & Books. My Herbarium alone will now line the entire walls of 3 rooms & I shall have one room so large as to contain nearly all my Books, which have been scattered through 5 or 6 in my present residence. With the assistance I shall have in removing, I trust to be fairly settled in 6 weeks or 2 mos at most.
From Drummond 3 I have just received 2 large Boxes. He has been collecting about San Felippe de Austin in Texas & tells of coming home next spring by way of N. Orleans & the Floridas. I shall certainly put names as much as possible to the present collections before distributing them.
Brodiæa congesta is a charming plant. I wish I were nearer to you that I might have a better opportunity of figuring some of your plants. I am at least 300 miles too far removed from London: & my time is so occupied that I can rarely spare the time required for a visit to the metropolis.
Will you do me the favor to frank the enclosed to Mrs Corrie. She is a a [sic] very accomplished & enthusiastic Botanist.4
Most faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker
H. F. Talbot Esqre M.P.
London
Lacock Abbey 5
Chippenham
Wilts.
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