
          Glasgow University 
Decr [December] 15th 1821.

Dear Sir

I received in the summer your 
letter of April 10th, announcing another letter 
& a box was to sail immediately from New 
York for this country. Up to this time 
however I have [added: heard] nothing of either one or the 
other & as you have not said by what 
vessel they were to come nor to what port, 
I am unable to make the necessary enquiries 
though, conceiving it likely that Liverpool 
would be their place of destination I 
have made every [crossed out: question?] enquiry at the
custom house there, but without success. 
Most assuredly from your part of America 
I should be very glad to receive dried 
specimens of plants, both phanerogamous
        