She asks Maw to forgive her troubling him on her cousin Mr Ruskin’s [John Ruskin] behalf; Ruskin is now abroad; she takes chief care of the garden as she did at Brantwood; Ruskin entrusted her to take care of the crocus corms Maw promised to send; they have a trustworthy gardener at Brantwood with whom the crocuses will be safe in their absence, as she is obliged to remain at Herne Hill for the present; Maw should address any parcels to Mr Hudson, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire [later Cumbria], via Carnforth and Foxfield to Coniston Station; they loved Maw’s botanical plates of the crocus series. Dated 27 Aug, no year [1880; the subject matter matches letters written in 1880; although Maw’s ‘Monograph of the Genus Crocus’ was published in 1886 Maw sent a ‘specimen’ of it to Charles Darwin in November 1880 and may have sent similar specimens to others including Ruskin; the letterhead is printed with 188-]