
          of Botany! My materials
 are so very scanty that I should like
 to borrow yours, for a very short
 time. If your collecn. [collection] does not
 exceed 1 or 2 folios, (so as to make a
 portable parcel), perhaps you wd. [would]
 send it to me by Mr. Grant-- with
 your copy of [May-Land?]. But
 if you are likely to work at these
 plants before you go to Cambridge,
 perhaps you will bring them with 
 you-- when you come over [?] -- & leave
 them with me whilst you are in
 the East-- which wd. [would] suit me just
 as well, as I am in no sort of
 hurry-- I shall be really rejoiced [?]
 to see you, & have no thought of
 leaving the City at present. I want
 to tell you something (very interesting)
 about a certain group of Carices, which
 is too long a story to write. To-day
 I was strong enough to walk to town & back
 the first time since my illness. Very affy [affectionately] yrs [yours]
        