
          it will be a hundred miles out of my way. He desired me when
 I wrote to send his respects to Dr. [David] Hosack, which I wish you to
 tell the Doctor. It was a great misfortune that I did not see
 Sr. J.E. [Sir James Edward Smith] sooner. If I had seen [] Good or [] Babington they might have told
 me where he was.


 I had like to have forgot Mr. [] Swainson-- he has entirely forgot
 or entirely neglected me. I have not seen him or heard from him
 since the time I called on him. I had conceived a much better
 opinion of him. A friend of Jones' Mr. Vaughn, a fellow
 of the Royal Society took us there and introduced us to the Pres't [President].
 I think there is a strong resemblance between Sir H.D. [probably Humphrey Davy] and Halleck [Fitz-Greene Halleck?].
 There were nearly 30 members present, the only paper of importance
 read was one by Davy on the Identity of Elc'y [Electricity] & Galv'm [Galvanism], containing
 some very curious statements. Speaking of the R.S. naturally
 brings to my mind the Lyceum [Lyceum of Natural History of the City of New-York]. I hope you are all at [cut off--paper torn away] 
 What I have yet seen of the great men of Europe gives me
 reason to fear that equally great men may [added with caret: not] be produced in [cut off-- paper torn away] 
 and even from among members of the learned Societies of N.Y.
 if they will only be industrious. The same gentleman Mr. Vaughn
 also gave us a letter to Mr. [William] Aiton at Kew but we were prevented
 going there by bad weather. About ten days before the Cor'n [Coronation]
 we left London and pent a week in a town down the Thames
 to the sea and there round the coast to Dover, Brighton, the 
 Isle of Wight &c. I must refer you to my mother for an
 account of [added with caret: my] good luck in getting a Peer's ticket to Westminster
 Hall & Abbey during the Coro'n [Coronation], and if you have patience to
 read the description in the newspapers you will find that it
 was a sight worth seeing. I have [added with caret: been] hoping every day to hear from
 you, there must be many sheets on the way, and they will be most 
 welcome when they come. 


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