
          Recd. [Received] Aug. 31.


 Poutrilas House, Hereford
 July 31 1848


 My dear Sir


  I was much pleased at receiving two
 days ago your interesting letter of the 10th
 and am delighted to hear such excellent
 accounts of our good friend Dr. Gray
 to whom I most sincerely wish all the
 happiness he deserves.


 The Santa F� [inserted: Monterey] (Mexico) plants he
 sent me from you gave me great
 pleasure. I [?] a collection of [crossed out: about] between 
 120 and 750 chiefly gathered by Major 
 Eaton & Dr. Edwards. Not being aware
 that you wished for any notes about 
 them I had sorted them out for [?]
 in and had just began with the [Prag....?}
 and [?] orders which I was [?] them
 arranging in my herbarium when Dr.
 Wallich came down to continue his
 distribution. I am now going to the
 Swansea meeting of the British Association

        