
          [in pencil] Recd [Received] May 10th


 Pontrilas House Hereford
 April 24 1854


 My dear Sir,


 I received a few days since yours 
 of the 28th March - many thanks for 
 the plants you send me which I shall 
 receive in London where I am going 
 for a fortnight or three weeks. 
 Unfortunately our friends the Gray's 
 have just or are now just leaving 
 so that we shall miss them but 
 we sincerely hope they will come 
 down here again in the summer.
 I wish we could have got you 
 across the Atlantic to come and 
 meet them.


 I finished the Eriogonum last 
 winter but de Candolle who I was 
 afraid would be waiting for them 
 wrote to me he should not want 
 them till next year - so that I 
 have the MS [manuscript] by me & shall keep 
 it for some time longer. Your set 
 was very valuable to me as well as
        