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Dear Henry

I go to Abb. ¹ with Susan ² on Monday next – & will not fail to send you specimens I suppose ferns, Acacias, & other plants of light foliage & semi transparent flowers ³ will do best. What do you think of the Munich plan of drawing on smoked glass – you might make a Solar eclipse draw itself at different stages of occultation.

Can moonlight be made use of? what pretty transparencies & Scenes & vander Neers ⁴ might be drawn.

I send you a mixed collection of seeds from Jacquin ⁵ & Tenore ⁶ – after helping your self – send the residue on to some of the worthies in Glamorganshire.

The Vienna Messenger was to go last night but he is detained for a day or two – & then Endlicher’s ⁷ packet will go.

Yr Aff
W F S

I think Phrygia Armenia & Media sufficiently near to have had the same traditions – the true Ararat ⁸ being in the centre the story spread both ways & stuck like the Ark to the first great Alp it met