
          Recd Augt. 30th at N York

Glasgow July 8, 1833.

My dear Friend

I flatter myself this letter will find
you in London, for although you had
planned to embark at Livl. [Liverpool] for the U.S.
on the 10th of July, I cannot bring myself
to think that such will be the case.
It appears only the other day since
you arrived & how you can in this short
interval have seen London & Paris &
the great men & things of those capitals
I cannot comprehend. I addressed a
few lines to you at New York about 3 weeks 
ago by a gardener who was about to emigrate
to that city. He was not previously
known to me but he was mentioned to
me in very high terms by his late employer
Lady Cummings Gordon, who has 
a most beautiful garden in the north of
Scotland, & by his [crossed out: Brother] [added: uncle] Lord John
Campbell. It struck me that such a
person would be an acquisition if such
a thing as a bot. [botanical] gardener was to be established.
He will probably in the first 
instance get employment in some nursery

        