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23 Oct^r

My dear Henry

I hope you received a parcel of plants I despatched to you the day after my return here.

Lindley ¹ says your small round leaved plant like an Epacris is an unknown myrtacea so I recommend you to take care of it – he thinks it a Leptospermum in which case it may be pretty. He says the other I took to be a phillyrea is [Colliguaya?] odorata – which has no smell – I cultivated a variety of it once. it is half hardy & will do with you as a wall plant

Can you explain to me the Hieroglyphic of my seal? It is a real Egyptian.²

I like the review of Arago in the Edinburgh. ³

Theodore ⁴ has been to enter at Oxford. Jane ⁵ is at Merthyr M. ⁶ at last.

I shall send you more plants from Abbotsbury. ⁷

Y^r aff
W Strangways

Wiltshire is unlucky – no sooner is Charlton ⁸ robbed than Breamore ⁹ is burnt down –

We have Ip. ¹⁰ bona nox in great beauty every night