“There had been an impressive amount of correspondence [...], the margins filled with landscapes, portraits, wildflowers – winter aconites, snowdrops, celandine, daisies – minutely and exactly drawn.” (February 24, 1814)

Today's equivalent would be a spate of WhatsApp messages, with pictures attached, as indeed I received when I asked my family for pictures of early wildflowers.

Winter aconites
Snowdrops


Lesser celandine
Daisies


© all photographs Jürgen May

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