
          
 Recd [received] Apr 28th
 by Mr. Doubleday


 Clapham Road 16th March 1837.


 My dear Sir


 Allow me to introduce to you
 my friends Edwd [Edward] Doubleday and Robt [Robert] Foster
 who are going on a long Natural History Tour
 throughout the States. Neither of them I
 believe particularly attend to our favorite
 service but Mr. Doubleday is a most
 ardent Entomologist. If you can assist
 them by introductions to Naturalists and
 Collections or by advice as to their routes
 I shall esteem it a favor.


 I was greatly vexed to hear of the very
 long delay of my letter and parcel of June
 last which it seems Mr. Ward forwarded
 almost immediately and he cannot think
 what caused the detention.


 My friend Carey, in a letter just received,
 mentions the sailing by the same vessel
 of a friend of yours. Probably you may
 have written by him, but as the wind is

        