TALBOT426

Moscow
Oct 29

My dear Henry

I hear you complain of me as a correspondent by this time you have rec^d the huge Caucasian packet & selected y^r portion & sent the rest to Oxford – I hope – so I soon expect to hear from you ¹ – I am sure you go to Cambridge for the sake of the Hortus Cantabrigiensis–² I fear you prefer Professor Martyn & M^r Don [sic]³ to Professor Williams & the memory of M^r Bobart.⁴ I am just acquainted with Professor Fischer,⁵ a naturalist in every possible way he is going to publish a Historie naturelle du Gouvernement de Moscou with plates which will be delightful. I have neither time nor room to describe to you C^t G Razoumovsky⁶ who is another gr^t naturalist & who is going to publish an ouvrage Zoologique Botanique Géologique Archéologique Météorologique⁷ upon Russia he is author you know of Hist. Nat. du Jorat⁸ When you travel in Poland I will give you a letter to a lady who lives in a castle surrounded with cypripedium & orchises of all kinds – but tho in the latitude of Melbury⁹ they have Lombardy poplars as a curiosity for the climate myrtles & pomegranates unknown of course – What do you think of M^r Salisbury’s book?¹⁰ have you seen the Bibersteinia?¹¹ They have transparent apples here I wish I knew how to send some plants or grafts for nothing is so faithless as an applepip –

Y^r aff^te
W T H F S

W H F Talbot Esq^r