[The dating of this letter is restricted by the bookends of the 1833 watermark and Haworth's death on 24 August of that year. It is narrowed further by the fact that WHFT left England in mid-June for an extended trip on the Continent with his new wife Constance (confirmed by ). It was on this trip that the idea of photography occured to him at Bellagio, on Lake Como, in early October.]
Monday Noon. –
Chelsea
My Dear Sir.
Your 2 Mesemba 1 have just arrived. A 4 o’ Clock the post should have them again. The yellow one is M. glaucum & as nearly as I can say by such a specimen, in such a group, the other is very near quite my M Aroflexum[?] (Nat. Revis. 139)[?]2 but I would not publish it without further examination. I am highly obliged, & gratified by the bulbs last monday of your Garden, & apologize much for forgetting to sign the book. But I shall be there again in a few days (with more plants for you) & will then sign,<3>
till when believe me very truly yrs
A. H. Haworth.
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