
          Rec'd. [Received] June 22?


 London
 June 7 1853


 My dear Sir


 I am very much in your debt 
 and am tired of making excuses to all 
 my correspondents so I must trust to 
 your kind friendship to make them 
 for me. Before leaving Pontrilas 
 I sent off (in a great [breathe?]) amongst
 other [?] one to our friend 
 Asa Gray in which is a small parcel 
 addressed to you with some Eriogonum 
 I was to return. I have finished 
 up my paper for the Prodrumus
 with the [?] names for new species 
 which I find in your herbarium. A. 
 Gray has since sent me the source of 
 the name (of Wrights) with other [?] 
 names - for instance E [floceorum?] 
 appears to me to be the same as the 
 E. Wrightii Torr. herb. - which latter 
 name I have adopted as your original
        