TALBOT3510

65 Harley S^{t 1} London
May 26^th 1837

My Dear Sir

I shall be happy to send you a small collection of Cape Bulbs and seeds, recently received from Sir John Herschel, ² if you like to have them. In that case will you let me know in what way I shall send them. There are in a proper state for immediate planting.

I was very much obliged to Lady Hooker ³ for the troubles she took some time ago in making enquiry respecting John Reid, ⁴ as well as to D^r Murray ⁵ of the Botanic Garden – Since then we have had little confidence in him, but as he seems a good gardener, and the inconvenience of changing is excessively great, especially during my protracted absence from home, the result is that he remains with us for the present.

I never saw so ungenial a spring as this year, I think there must have been a great destruction of tender plants in all the gardens –

Believe me Yours most truly
H. F. Talbot.