
          two days since [added with caret: I called on him] but he was from home [crossed out: did not see him]. & I
made a second call this moring with no better success. As I did
not leave my address, the laws of etiquette permit me to call again
which I intend to do, for I mean to make a fair trial of [him?].

Being in a bookseller's shop about a week ago I saw the 9th no.
of [William John] Swainson's Illustrations laying on the counter & [crossed out: thought] it
occurred to me to ask the book'ller [bookseller] if he knew his address; he did not
bit said that his son who was not then within did. I called again last
Saturday, saw the young man who directed me to S. lodgings & I waited
upon him. He is a slender emaciated sallow faced bald young
man of about 30 years of age & I found him at work on a lithographic
engraving of a butterfly. I introduced myself & we had some conver'n [conversation].
He stammers so, that it is distressing [crossed out: to] or at least tedious to listen
to him, for though you know what he wishes to speak yet you
must wait some time before he can utter it, Stewart's name 
seemed almost unutterable for him. He mentioned that his
father had got the boxes which I left at L'pool [Liverpool], & that he
expected to go to L'pool himself in two or three weeks and would then
forward them. He asked what we thought of a certain Transylvanian
professor. I told him that we considered him a man of great learning
but his fondness for innovation destroyed his usefulness which [crossed out: would]
might otherwise be great. He coincided [with?] me in this as you
may suppose, & said that he has known him at Naples where he
was a merchant. He (S.) wished to know If I could [provide?]
him a correspondent in Conchology, but I new of none. I
        