TALBOT8608

Trin Coll. ¹
Wednesday

My dear Father –

I send you a f wild flower which I gathered in my walk yesterday, as I wish to know what it is. But though I put it in water it has faded so that it does not look as it did. When I gathered it was [sic] very pretty: the petals something like those of a dandelion only blue & with their extremities finished & fringed in the same manner.

The stamina were of the same light blue as the flower and were lined lengthways with dark blue lines, and at their extremities there were a couple of thin horns which curled down on either side like those of Jupiter Ammon. It grew by the side of the road between the road & the footpath on the Barton road not far from Cambridge. I am sorry to see that there has been a very bad accident ² on the Edinburgh & Glasgow railway near Wynchborough ³.

I go in t to examination tomorrow at 9 oclock. Again at 1 oclock to 4 till 4. and on Friday from 9 to 11½. –

Your affect son
Charles.

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
nr. Edinburgh