BAILEY (Philip James, 1816-1902, Poet and Botanist)

Autograph Letter Signed to  Alfred William BENNETT , (1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), asking him to "accept my thanks for the Specimen No. just received of your interesting series of portraits ... as soon as I visit London ... not before October ... I will take the opportunity of calling upon you", 2 sides 8vo., with conjugate blank, Inisfail Cottage, St. Peter's Valley, Jersey, 10th April trace of mounting at foot of conjugate blank verso

Bennett translated and editied Justus Sachs' 'Lehrbuch der Botanik', 1875, and collaborated in 'Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany', 1889.

Item Date:  1864

Stock No:  13878      £35

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