June 29 1868 1
My Dear Sir
I am going on the Continent next Friday or Saturday to spend the summer and perhaps also the autumn & winter. If you should be able before that time to inform me of the safe arrival of my plant, I mean that the journey has not checked its flowering – I shall be glad. My address is Athenæum Club, London.2
I have a plant which I hope will flower next year very finely, & I will then take it to London to be figured – I should not wish a figure to be taken from the plant I sent you because it is only half grown and “pauciflorus” 3
Yours vy truly
H. F. Talbot
Professor Balfour
[note added in Balfour's hand:]
.1868
Fox Talbot
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