TALBOT6261

Burlington Street ¹
9 August

My dear Henry

I am very sorry I can not make one of the party to M^t Edgcumbe. ² I am just now promised to various parts of the East of Eng^ld, & could only spare a few days to Lacock or Brickworth ³ or at farthest to Abbotsbury ⁴ – I have promised a visit to Carclew ⁵ in autumn when I shall hope to find Caroline ⁶ still at M^t E. I was in hopes of catching all at Lacock.

Why do you not go to the Hartz by way of a new place? If you go to the Pyrenees step over them into Spain & bring some Aragonese bulbs some Lilio hyacinthus & seeds.

I am just come from Robert Browns ⁷ – who shewed me some most curious sections of petrified Portland Zamias, & Antigua palms, one of the latter with a leaf in it. Also a fruit like a Lycopodium something which he is going to publish.

Y^r Aff^te
W F S

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Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham