Ree. .Aug. 17 (?) Kew 
Ans. 27 Düren 
Poppelsdorf er Castle Aug. 13,1857- 
My dear Friend 
As you are in England and as I have just Tritten- an Enprlishr 
letter to Sir Hooker, my mind has turned so EnglisH, that I write inr 
this lanp-uage to you». fr^cV) ^ ^ 
I am most obliged to you f or the 9 corms of my ISd^itÄ^Nymphaceae 
which you had the kindness to send to me. But why did you not fetch 
also one for your order ? 
I Tvrote to Sir William to ask him for ref erence, that I might^ 
figure in my work on Nymphaceae, an excellent native rhizoma of Nym ^ 
phaea gigantea , which is in the Kew Museumv- I asked him to send me 
either the rhizoma itself or a drawing of it, made by Mr. Fitchr and 
T hope, you will be so kind as to bring either the rhizoma or the 
drawing over for me.- In case Sir William gets me a drawing, . be so 
kind as to pay for me to Mr.Fitch. I want to have the drawing in its- 
actual size, or really two: • 
1. Over-view taken from the side. 
2. One View of the process of Insertion of the leafstalk,. or of 
the process of the cushion of the leaf seen from above. 
I would like much better to get rhizoma than a drawing, but I am: 
afiraid Sir William- would not wish to send me the rhizoma, which I 
would return as soon as possible. • 
I called upon your sisters and had the pleasure of finding them' 
home. . 
Today I began to sketch a rhizoma of N/mphaea alba in füll size 
for a work on Njrmphaeaceae. There does not exist any faithful re- 
presentation of it^ it has always been changed' (^should be'^mistaken'* 
E.D.) 'with the rhizome of Nuphar . which is nevertheless very iffiffe- 
rent. Believe me, my dear friend.your very truly and af f ectionately^ 
Robert Caspary 
(transcribed from script in en^lish by Ed^^rar Denison, Jupy 1988 ) 
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