From Sir H. Bunbury   24 September 1857

My dear Sir,

I have been very much obliged to you for the Hitcham Report of Allotment & Garden progress in the last year— It affords ample proof of the good you have, in spite of difficulties, brought into your Parish.

This has been a bad year with me. I have been confined by illness more than three months; nor am I yet out of the Doctor’s hands.

The long continuation of hot weather has produced seed vasscule on several plants on which they were never seen before. Catalpa (abundant), Pavia parviflora, Christ’s thorn, & one or two others. I will send you some specimens.

Lady Bunbury, tho’ she charges me with kind remembrances to you, declares herself to be indignant at finding that you & D. ^r Hooker have been at Bury without visiting Barton!

Very truly your’s | H F Bunbury