State Library of NSW
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Pendell Court, Bletchingley, Surrey.
Edderton Tain Rosskeen, NB Aug 27
My dear Friend
How I am in the Highlands again at a new shooting taken by our good friend Peter. Do you recollect crossing the "Muckle Ferry" when you accompanied by your dear wife & myself to the Fae north well! This place is [indecipherable] the wiles a little to the west of the Southern side of the Ferry nearly opposite to Golspie. There is no Deer Forest but plenty
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me, tho years not yet arrived, a Wardian Case containing Cycads [indecipherable] and one plant of Platycerium Grande, but of this last I want two or three very large masses, as I now going a large Fern House. As to the Cycads & [indecipherable] instead of sending them in a Wardian case. They wd. have come better in a case planted in saw dust & shavings. I should be glad of six [indecipherable] Dicksonias packed in the same way & put high. Good bye dear Friend, situated
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