Letter from Jolly & Baker [merchants in Mexico] to John Lindley esquire, vice-secretary, Horticultural Society, London

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Title: Letter from Jolly & Baker [merchants in Mexico] to John Lindley esquire, vice-secretary, Horticultural Society, London

Scope & content: Written from Tampico [Mexico]

He acknowledges receipt of a letter dated 11 Aug addressed to McCalmont, Lyall & Co [merchants in Mexico] and accompanied by a copy of a letter from Messrs W. Broad & Sons [William Broad & Sons, merchants in Falmouth]: 'the contents of [these letters] have not a little surprised us'; repeated applications have been made to the commanders of the packets [ships] to take the boxes to England but without success; the enclosed letters [for the letters originally enclosed with this one between Messrs Jolly & Baker and Joseph Tucker Crawford, 19 Nov 1838, see RHS/Col/7/1/2/43-44] to and from the vice-consul will prove the fault is not theirs; this letter will be shipped by the Sheldrake, which cannot take the boxes as the troops here have revolted against the government and they are now besieged, and nothing more than mail bags may be sent to the packet; Mr Hartweg [Theodor Hartweg] authorised them to send the boxes by a merchant vessel, but the French blockade prevented their doing so