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/1/36
Date
8 Dec 1886
Scope & content
Written from Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Manuscript
He thanks Maw for the letter and the bulbs; he has sent the letter on to Jekyll [unidentified] and urged him to take advantage of Maw’s kind offer; the bulbs seem to have suffered from their journey and he asks why Maw does not just send his finds straight home by post; he asks for an introduction to Mr or Mrs Danford [Mrs C.G. Danford, plant collector] in order to ask them about a little Iris [likely Iris danfordiae] he has which was gathered by Mrs Danford in Asia Minor [Anatolia, Turkey]