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My dear Sir

I avail myself of your very kind permission signified to me thro' Harriot Mundy ¹ & send to L^y E Feildings ² house in Sackville Street ³ for your inspection, a few specimens of the amusing labors which have produced near 900 pen Etchings of Dorsetshire plants. If I can obtain a sum for them which can be applied to the benefit of the Dorset County Hospital now erecting, I must not object to any mode of publishing them that may be deem'd most likely to be profitable, & therefore I am indifferent whether it be done by Subscription or otherwise probably Dorsetshire would afford a good many names -

You are I doubt not aware, that this county is very rich in plants & possesses many rare ones, the Aconitum, Parnassia palustris, Paris quadrifolia, Sisymbrium Iris, Scirpus sacii are denizens with many others -

I have sent up the specimens by my Nephew M^r Shirley⁴ whose Servant will leave the small parcel in Sackville Street either Saturday Evening or soon afterwards. M^rs Dawson Damer gives me hopes of a chance of seeing L^y Eliz Feilding at Came.⁵ I much wish the idea may be realized. I remain with many thanks for the trouble I am giving you.

Yrs very Sincerely
Mary Frampton

Dorchester
April 22^d 1841