July 2 –
Dear Henry
What Teucrium can this be? It has a southern aspect – yet I found it at Pyrmont on a high hill in company with Vincetoxicum Rosa tomentosa, Epipactis ensifolia & the like I have been making a delicious Tour to Cassel Westphalia, Sylva Teutoburgensis, Hermansberg & thereabouts – Your Photographs are excessively admired & I doled away a few. I have to thank you for the new ones. The portrait is wonderful – but why do you not take a more interesting one? Constance, 1 with the three babies 2 on their donkey & the tower of Lacock behind would make a pretty picture!
The Mt Edgcumbes 3 leave Wiesbaden for Teplitz 4 Tuesday next – I have not time to tell you all about my Tour – I saw such curious old towns & churches –
When are you coming abroad? The diet have given 100–000. florins for Wagners Electromagnetic motive machine.
Yrs Aff
W F Strangways
Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
WFS 5
In a garden here I found Allium siculum, Garidella nigellastrum, Hieracium spatulafolium & Bulbocodium vernum all pretty & new to me.
Frankfort
2Jy.
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