
          Cambridge, Saturday 
 Evening.


 My Dear Friend 


 You will not wonder that 
 I feel a little anxious, when I tell you 
 that a month has almost if not 
 quite elapsed, since I have heard from 
 you, or indeed from Clermont at all! 


 I, for my part, should have written 
 much sooner, only that I was 
 every day expecting some letter to acknowledge 
 & reply to, or that I should have the 
 pleasure of seeing you in person, for your 
 last informed me that you were coming 
 in a few days. I fear I shall forget 
 all the little botanical matters I had 
 meant to take up, before you come. 


 I have two Linnaea's for you, one an 
 old number missing and our sets, & one in 
 continuation. To-day, I got (from 
 a bundle sent to Greene) [our?] Journal of 
 Botany from Hooker, from Decr [December] to April 
 inclusive, nothing else. Greene gets
 also (subscribed for I believe) J. [Joseph] Hooker's
 Flora Antarctica, some late nos. [numbers] of which 
 I glanced at to-day. Very fine and interesting. 
        