TALBOT744

[The wrapper for this letter is in a private collection:]
H^y Fox Talbot Esqr
Rev^d M^r Bonney's
Normanton
Stamford

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February 1817

My Dear Henry

I enclose your four Seeds which have put me in a grand frenzy They are marked N^o51 in M^r Jones's List & are consequently Ixias, which are bulbs How therefore can this be right? I am stopped in the middle of my career by this difficulty & dont like to send them to Ly Bath ¹ till it is cleared up, so make haste & write. When I came to unpack the seeds there are so very few that I dont know how I can subdivide them so as to please all parties, for 1 infinitely divided is equal to 0. The Bulletin about Lord James Murray's palpitatio cordis ² is very good, cut it out for me Adieu

Write, & dont be so extraordinarily brief i.e. if you can help it

Plant the 4 Seeds & see what they turn out