
          Edinburgh December 18th 1821

My Dear Sir

From your long silence and not having
acknowleged the receipt of a parcel of Plants sent
many months ago, I fear that it & perhaps also
my letter may have miscarried— I forget exactly
how long it is since I wrote but it was after
the parcel was sent & I mentioned it in that
the parcel had been detained some weeks in 
Liverpool. I once thought that something might
have happened to you till I heard from my
friend Hooker that you had written to him.

Dr Holbrooke who is going in a few days
to depart for America is kind enough to afford
one the opportunity of sending by him another
Parcel to you containing a number of [?]
particularly minute fungi & Musci
many which you will find source busy
care & valuable plants. Hooker having emparted
very largely to me of some new [?]

        