
                


 London Jan 2 1840


 [in pencil: Recd. [Received] March]


 Ansd. [Answered] Oct. 11 1840
 by W [?]


 My dear Sir


 I am ashamed to think how many of your letters
 remain as yet unanswered besides Dr. Gray's which he kindly
 wrote before he left London. I know not even whether I have
 yet thanked you for the pleasure I have derived from his
 acquaintance, but I find myself every day getting more and
 more lazy at letter writing. I received and have much to
 thank you for the parcel I found here on my return from
 France, with your letter of the 12th Oct. There are many 
 things in it most interesting to me especially the Leguminosae
 with which I am now much occupied. My paper on
 Schomburgk's Guiana plants are reprinting and will appear 
 nearly consecutively in Hooker's Journal of Botany about to be
 recommenced and you will there see some of my ideas on
 the arrangement of those tribes of Leguminosae which
 I had not worked up at Vienna. I am also about to describe 
 Wallich & E. Indian Leguminosae for the Linnean [Tran...?]
 But all this is only preparatory to my Leguminorarum
 Genera et Species for which any materials will always
 be of great value to me.


 Amongst the E. Florida plants you last sent me
 I observe the Sophora tomentosa [?] which is the same
 species as S. littoralii Schrad. & S. occidentalis of somebody
 else. It is a maritime plant found not uncommonly in
 the warmer regions of both hemispheres. You sent me

        