Letter from M. Foster [Michael Foster] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from M. Foster [Michael Foster] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/29
Date
22 Aug 1883
Scope & content
Written from Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for the bulbs, but as they were packaged in a match box the larger bulb arrived crushed to pieces; he has tended to it with charcoal and sand but fears it will not survive; he asks Maw to package future bulbs in a tin box; Mr White [Horace Philips White, British consul at Tangier, Morocco] promises to send them both bulbs of Iris tingitana, which grow 12 miles from Tangiers [Tangier, Morocco], in the spring. Dated 22 Aug, no year [1883; the subject matter matches letters written in 1883]