
          Recd. [Received] Jany. [January] 16th 1839. [probably 1840]


 Lund, Sweden, Oct. [October] 8. 1839.


 J. G. Agardh


 Dear Sir!


 It is some months ago I had the pleasure to receive a parcel, accompanied
 by an obliging letter of Jul. [July] 6 1838 [crossed out: illegible] to my Father, intended to 
 be a introductory for Mr. Thompson, who having, as I suppose, got
 some reason [added: to alter] the plan of his Journey, did not pay the intended
 visit to Lund. As heir of the Botanical obligations of my Father
 who in his new place has little time to bestow on his favorite study,
 I beg now to address you, and return his most sincere compliments
 and thanks for the sendt [sent] books. I should be happy if you would
 be willing to continue a correspondence which should be for me
 as usefull as agreeable. I dont know if you are furnished with
 plants from our country; if not I shall be happy to send you any
 you should wish for. Returned since a year from a long Journey
 in the south of Europe I am also well provided with plants
 from the south of France, the Pyrenees, Switzerland etc. You have
 only to tell me if you wish for any from those countries, and I 
 shall with the first opportunity dispatch a complete set of my
 duplicates, or specimens of rariora, according to your wishes in that

        