
          [note in pencil: [1849?]]


 Saturday morng. [morning]


 My dear friend, 


 It was my intention
 to have written you a rather long letter
 with your Carices [specimens of Carex], but a bowel complaint
 which has troubled me for the last 3 days
 has now become so unmanageable
 that I have been obliged to call in the
 aid of Dr. Beales this morning. You will
 find one of your parcels of Carices fastened
 outside the box, which was too small to
 contain them all-- & my next largest
 size, is far too capacious. There are 7
 of your own pack'gs [packages] in all, & I have
 numbered them outside to correspond
 with the order in which you will
 find them arranged, in the Catalogue
 I send you. I strongly recommend you
 to have them glued down, & I think
 you had better keep a good many of
 your duplicates-- (I return them all
 arranged in their proper places)-- as your

        