
          compliance will much oblige

 Yr [your] sincere friend
 Sam [Samuel ] Tho [Thomas] Carey

 5 May 
 [in another hand: 1836?]

 Mr. Macleay, formerly wrote much on
 zoology, but has lately attended to 
 entomology, & has indeed collected
 & described in most branches of science.
 He wants to see the private collections
 in this country before he goes to 
 Europe
        