
          Edinburgh Oct. 30 1825

My dear friend

Yesterday arrived your parcel and
letter for which please to accept my best thanks.
I shall write to Dr. [Joseph] Barratt at this time also 
and thank him for his share. A good many 
of the plants are not in any collections and
consequently extremely agreeable to me. Dr. Barratt's
Carices are also peculiarly welcome and are as
you say in fine state. Many of them however 
have no leaves which does not look well in the 
herbarium. But I am very thankful for them
and as Schweinitz has also promised me as
complete a collection as he can make I shall
make [added: a} most capital assortment amongst them.
I shall be glad to see your monograph for I consider
that species of writing as the most useful of
any. Early in Spring both you and Dr. Barratt may
depend [on?] receiving something from me. All the
British Carices I can command are at your service
and I will look after them more particularly during
the [?] summer. I have not seen [Humphrey?] Davey's papers.
Silliman's Journal not coming regularly to Edinburgh.
Can you tell me for how much I could get
a copy down to the present time. A second hand
one would do. I should like to have it if it could 
        