
          how to direct the package &c any thing that I could do
 to oblige your estimable friend Dr H [Hooker] will be done by me
 without delay, and the more cheerfully if that be possible 
 from the handsome manner he has expressed to me 
 his intention of acknowledging my labours on the willows
 with the names, remarks, &c I may favour him with 
 in his Flor [Flora] Boreali Americana. But to open a
 correspondence with his illustrious friend will be
 more than I had thought of but I shall as soon 
 as practicable get all the willows within my reach, so
 as to be able to send a respectable number for the Garden
 of his Grace at Woburn Abbey.


 When this box is sent I will apprize you by post and must
 trouble you or some or some of your friends to get it shipped 
 by the first packet for Liverpool. The near approach to
 of Spring makes me anxious to have these living willows
 on the way without loss of time.


 I have already made arrangements with Mr. J R 
 Walkinson of this City to have the boxes sent to their
 store at 23 Cedar Street, Jabez Hubbard upstairs 
 thence I will get youto have [added: them] put on Ship Bond.
 I purpose sending at the same time a set of specimens
 of dried Willows to the Duke to let him [covered by ink blot: know?] what
 I have sent him, so that your advice to me
 last winter was not premature, he may indeed
 yet hope to see some of the plates of Willows of 
 Wobourn [Woburn Abbey], or even the "Salictum Wobournense [Salictum Woburnense]" which
 would be a rarity in this Country.
        