Letter from Manning, Mackintosh & Co [agents of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Mexico] to T. Edgar [Thomas Edgar], treasurer of the Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London

Information

Title: Letter from Manning, Mackintosh & Co [agents of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Mexico] to T. Edgar [Thomas Edgar], treasurer of the Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London

Scope & content: Written from Vera Cruz [Veracruz, Mexico]

Postmarked ('[illegible] 1845'). There is an opened seal attached to the letter

They acknowledge receipt of a letter dated 30 Sep presented to them by Mr Theodor Hartweg, who arrived on 13 Nov, and continued to Miraflores [Mexico] and Mexico [Mexico City, Mexico] the following day; they will forward his collections of seeds and plants, and supply him with money from his £500 credit; they received from Hartweg two boxes of plants and a small case of seeds, which they have forwarded on a steamer, and enclose a 'bill of lading and receipt' [enclosures not present]