
          Monday Morning, P. [Post] Office 1855.


 Dear Friend


 I will go at the Scrophular. [Scrophularia?]
 of Whipple, from the specimens I
 have.


 Send on early the first sheets
 of your mss. [manuscript] & I will revise
 It would be well [crossed out: for?] that I
 had, when practicall [practical?], specimens to
 match. Come as soon as you
 can & we can work up the mss. [manuscript]
 a little here.


 Does not this proof you send
 of one of Pope's drawings ([Kew?]
 Stenandrium) tell us where the
 drawings are viz. with
 Prestele?


 I informed Hooker last week of
 Maggy's coming.
 If she is at all detained in
 England, Hooker will come & see
 her & take her to Kew.


 You must be busy enough now.


 Ever Yours affy. [affectionally]  A Gray
        