Letter from H.U. Addington [Henry Unwin Addington, British under-secretary of state for foreign affairs] to Dr John Lindley [assistant secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society

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Title: Letter from H.U. Addington [Henry Unwin Addington, British under-secretary of state for foreign affairs] to Dr John Lindley [assistant secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society

Scope & content: Written from The Foreign Office [London]

He encloses a dispatch to Sir Henry Pottinger [previously British governor of Hong Kong] [enclosure not present], on the recommendation of Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, British foreign secretary], which Mr Fortune [Robert Fortune] should deliver on his arrival in China