TALBOT6277

Abbotsbury ¹
23 Dec^r 1849

My dear Henry

Will you give or forward the enclosed to Horatia ² whose present habitat is unknown Are you going to Pau after all – you are too late to avoid the winter for it has set in with more than usual spite A few days ago I could have told you wonders of the garden now all or most is in the dust.

We have however still a good many Paper & other Narcissus, Yellow Oxalis, Lithospermum, Gibraltar candytuft – & a few double pink early Camellias – also Iris scorpioides & A. ³ arisarum.

I was going to <spend> Christmas at Moreton ⁴ but am put off unavoidably – the Mundys ⁵ are there & I am sorry to miss them.

Y^r Aff
W F S