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Friday Ev^g

My dear Sir

Your note ¹ has just reached me. Many thanks for your kind congratul^ns All our party are very well I am glad the bulbs have thriven & if you want other and better pray drop me a line as early as possible to N^o 10 Hanover Crescent Regent’s Park (where I shall be in posse if not in esse) ² for the next 4 or 5 months and state your exact address and the conveyance by which they will most certainly & expeditiously reach you.– I have some superb Satyrium’s (one of w^h a nondescript) has been entitled nicknamed by a very talented young assistant at the Cape (Mr Harvey) ³ after myself – but they are no longer transportable being already in full leaf in boxes of earth, but next year I can give you roots of them & of the Saty^rn Carneum a most lovely thing.

ã Argus when I last saw it near S^t Helena had already declined from its extraordinary state of excitement (equal or very nearly so to á Centauri, and superior to Arcturus). It had sunk to the level of about Aldebaran.– Frc^s Baily ⁴ informs that in __________’s Catalogue it is marked 4 m. – It is altogether a most remarkable phenomenon.

I have today housed the great mass of my obs^ns & by tomorrow expect to have all under lock & key. I believe the Southern sky has been pretty well rummaged.

I remain d^r sir yours very truly
JFW Herschel

H.F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
near Chippenham
Somerset