From Leonard Jenyns Sep 24 1849

Swaffh. Bulb.

Sept. 24

My dear Henslow,

I have just looked at Ann. des Sci., & find that the only plates which accompanied the Botanical No. for March were 7 & 8, both which I presume you have got. I feel certain that that none others came which have not been forwarded to you. When I am next in Cambridge, I will instruct Macmillan about sending the nos. in future to the Phil. Soc. addressed to you, where they may await your orders & you will then take care of my share till I return.—

No time is yet fixed for our moving to the I. of Wight, nor can be, till I get a Curate,— of whom no tidings whatever at present.— A D r Martin has just published a very nice little work (as it appears to me at first sight) on the Climate & Nat. Hist. of the Undercliff, which I have procured, to take with me;— do you know anything of you him? He is a practicing physician, a medical man, in that neighbourhood. I shall be glad of a letter to D r Bromfield, whom I know by name, though I never met him;— but he resides at Ryde, not at Ventnor, so I shall scarcely see much of him.—

So the next meeting of the Brit. Assoc. is for Edinburgh, & the next after that for Ipswich; — then you will be in your glory, with all the Ipswich young men around you.

I am sorry to say that, amid all my cares & things to attend to, I never remembered the specs. of Turf for Kew — but those which served to illustrate the paper I read to our section at Cambridge—were never sent back here, but left at the Society’s house in a box, — & if they are still in existence, which I will inquire after when next there— they may all go as they are to Sir W. Hooker—

Some time back, a small species of Wasp, the exact name of I don’t know, built its nest against the roof of my dog kennel, obliging the dog to lye outside, & who nevertheless got stung in the foot; about the size of an orange;— the insect is very like the V. vulgaris, but much smaller, & is certainly distinct from what I have got named (by M r Smith the best authority in these groups) as the V. holsatica, but I have not time to attend to it now. I have the nest & species of wasp. but it was much broken by my man who took it down prematurely, misunderstanding my orders.—

Jane has sent a note to Harriet saying that I believe I shall take her to Brighton next week, & then return here alone, till I can get a curate. With my best love to her,

Yours affly | L. Jenyns—

P.S. My Rheumatism is still very indifferent, & obliges me to keep the house; I made it worse by doing duty yesterday.—

Date of letter inferred from the date of the next Edinburgh meeting of the British Association

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