TALBOT3296

London
7^th June

My dear Henry

Pray do not fancy that because this Letter is franked by William ¹ that he sends you these seeds. They are some given me at Nice & the Cucurbite ² has a most curious fruit of an extraordinary shape & will only require a cucumber frame. The others you will know when you look at the seeds & are a variety –

William desires me to propose a philosophical question about Bubbles to you, but for fear of mistating the difficulty je ne m’en mêle pas ³ –

How very odd that when I wrote to you from Paris lamenting M^r Bowles’s ⁴ death, you never contradicted the report!

I find the envelope will not contain all, so ça sera pour une autre fois ⁵