Letter from Robert Fortune to Dr Lindley [John Lindley, assistant secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London

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Title: Letter from Robert Fortune to Dr Lindley [John Lindley, assistant secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London

Scope & content: Written from Kelloe, Ayton [Berwickshire, Scotland]

Postmarked ('Dunse JA8 1843', 'I 10JA10 1843'). The letter includes an opened seal

He is intending to leave in a few days, and asks for letters to be addressed to 43 Albany Street, Edinburgh; he hopes to visit several gardens in Edinburgh, and could provide 'notices' of them for the Gardener's Chronicle; he thanks Lindley for the time he has been allowed to spend in Kelloe and Edinburgh: 'you may order me home as soon as you think proper'