TALBOT314

May 14

Dear Henry

I expected to be scolded for going over the Col de Tende at a wrong season & skipping the Corniche but I did not expect you to cut me altogether I suppose you have entered into the gay world or are employed visiting gardens – I have begun a correspondence with Tenore ¹ who describes feelingly his isolement ² in London with a packet of letters of introduction not one of which could be deliver<ed> because tout le monde était a la Campagne. ³ tell me if you want anything from Naples – He has sent to Rodwell & Martin the N^os 21 to 24 of his F. Nap. ⁴ directed to me or to the University of Oxford – where you can see them – he is collecting this year many dried specimens of the peculiar plants of naples & has sent me Cyclamen verus temporeflorens <Grammitis?> leptophylla & Osmunda Lusitanica – If you could send me a few fresh < seeds ⁵?> of Dionæa muscipula for him I should like it – & if you could send any other seeds or roots worth cultivating in Italy, to the foreign Off: – soon – there will be an opportunity of sending them here ⁶ by a new attaché M^r Mitford ⁷ whom we expect as we see he is presented & he will of course bring a Bag. Your plan of dipping Orchideæ in hot water does not succeed with me.

Y^r Aff

W T H F S

I enclose you a rare Hy<illegible> from <Canizzi?> – Tenore has found the yellow Polygala nel regno ⁸. –

H. Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street