
          Edinburgh March 23, 1832

My dear friend

I have this day put on board
of the Brig Margaret Alexander Craig, Master,
bound from Leith to New York fasciculi I-XI
of the Icones Filicum. The vessel is to
clear out the first of April. I am sorry 
that [added: because] the publishers have been going on at
such a snail's page with the concluding
part that I have not been able to send
it complete as I fully expected. It
shall however floow by the first opportunity.
Since I last wrote my pursuits
have been grievously interrupted, expecially
by an operation on one of my eyes
which although nothing more than 
the extracation of two encysted tumors
yet being deep seated & having formed
strong adhesions occasioned some inflamation
& great irritability which
was increased by the subsequent use
of caustics to get the granulations
within due bounds. I am rather
        