
          Edinburgh July 1st 1824

My dear Sir

Your last kind letter dated
Feby 3rd has only just come to hand &
I lose no time in replying to it — only if
my communications are as long in reaching
you as yours are in travelling hither
there is no saying when you will
get it. It is very difficult to send parcels
from hence to America, but I hope soon
to get some more regular means via
Liverpool. I have had a parcel lying
sealed up for you 3 months containing
Flora Edinensis etc. etc. I shall now
do my utmost to get it dispatched
with some few additional articles.

I have now (since I made up that 
jacket) had more time to look into your
work and without flattery think it well
done it must be a gratifying thing for
you to reflect that it is the first at
all complete work on American Botany.

The new Holland plants have come
but I have been grievously disappointed.
that is, I had hoped for some duplicates
but there were none, except in Cryptogamia
        