MEMOIR OP THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
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Mr. Watson is in good cue & very busy in picking Persoon* for the 
Garden, which we have already filled with trees and plants from the sale 
of Phillipson’s nursery. 
I shall be in Sulfolk in J une «& hope we may one way or other have the 
pleasure of meeting. My wife and daughter accompany me in about six 
weeks to London & thence I shall go to Parham. 
My best thanks for Mr. Burrell’s pamphlet which I return herewith. 
Pray remember me to this worthy Gent, when you see him. My compts. to 
Mrs. Scales & I am my dear Sir 
Yours truly 
Drypool 10 Apl. 1812 William Spence. 
“Mr. Scales” 
CossEY NE. Norwich 
23 Oct* 1812 
My dear Sir, 
I deferred answering your letter which I had the 
pleasure of receiving many months ago, in the hope that on my arrival in 
this quarter of the world I should have been able either to accept your kind 
invitation of spending a few days with you, or at all events of having it in 
my power to give you a call & have a dish of Entomological gossip with you. 
I am truly grieved however that both one hope & the other have been 
disappointed having been so closely engaged with Jlr. Kirby on our opus 
magnum ever since my arrival in Suflblk that it was not until very lately that 
1 w!us able to fulfil a promise long ago made to Hooker of sj>ending a short 
time with him ; & finding to my great mortification on my arrival there that 
you had already quitted Halvergate & gone to a distant part of the county 
where, my time being limited to a day or two, I cannot have the pleasure 
of hunting you out. In fact Hooker though aware of your having left 
Halvergate did not know precisely your address, & I am obliged to send 
this to his brother at Norwich for a direction. My wife would have been 
very happy to have accepted 3Irs. Scales’s polite invitation but our little girl 
though otherwise in excellent health is made so ill with coach travelling that 
I was obliged to leave them both in London where they are staying with a 
relation until I return to convey them home. 
Your late vast extension of your farming concerns of which as being 
doubtless greatly to your interest I was very glad to hear, will of course 
preclude much attention to Entomology. Your seal however I am well 
convinced will not suffer your new abode to be unexamined & I greatly 
flatter myself that your acute remarks will present us with as attractive a 
* Persoon was a well-known botanist. I imagine Mr. Spence to have 
meant that from a study of his works Mr. "Watson was picking out plants 
that would be suitable for the new Botanic Garden. 
