TALBOT3890

10 June

We send to Italy Saty next 15^{th 1}

Dear Henry

The photogenies ² are very good & very acceptable – I wish you could contrive to mend Natures perspective – we draw objects standing up & she draws them lying down which requires a correction of the eye or mind in looking at the drawing.

Pray take every pains to perfect the Camera branch of the art – that will be the most useful & the grand cheval de bat. ³

I admire the head from painted glass it will be invaluable for the preservation of that class of art – There is a mutilated but graceful head of the virgin in Abbotsbury Church which I should be very glad to learn to take off. – It looks like one of the early German School.

Were any of the leaves I sent you from Abb^{y 4} of any use? You should try all white or pale coloured flowers but may not white be opaque?

I am going to talk to Jane ⁵ over the map about her travels which they all look forward to with delight – Fanny ⁶ is come very well & has brought bulbs & Fungus melitearis –.

I have fine specimens of Allium Siculum or Dioscoridis Nectaroscordum of Lindley ⁷ – a curious departure from true Allia but very unlike my idea of Nectar. Are your Persian Umbelliferæ coming up?

Y^rs
W F S