Letter from George Dunlop [agent of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] to T. Edgar [Thomas Edgar], Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London and invoice from Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

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Title: Letter from George Dunlop [agent of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] to T. Edgar [Thomas Edgar], Horticultural Society, 21 Regent Street, London and invoice from Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Scope & content: Written from Southampton

Postmarked ('Southampton [illegible]', '[illegible]'). The letter includes part of an opened seal

Annotated in pencil on top of the first page: '2 Mr Hugo Finck's [American farmer and botanist in Mexico; Finck sometimes sent specimens to the Horticultural Society, and someone may have thought the correspondence related to him instead of Theodor Hartweg] 2 cases'

He acknowledges receipt of a letter dated 12 Jan; cases HS1-2 were dispatched on Saturday, and should have reached Edgar yesterday; he has received instructions from the secretary to charge the usual freight on the cases, and he encloses a note relating to the freight

Enclosed invoice, dated 13 Jan 1846, for freight for the Horticultural Society from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for £1 10s 8d, for two cases of plants measuring 8 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 6 inches, sent from Vera Cruz [Veracruz, Mexico] on the Tweed ('Parsons [George Parsons, captain of HMS Tweed]')