
          Recd Apr 5th in a 
parcel of plants & books 
brought by Dr. MacDowall [Robert McDowall]

Glasgow, Jany 20, 1834.

My Dear Friend, On Saturday while 
Mr Macdonal [McDowall] (not MacDougal as I then 
supposed) was on the wing for Greenock 
to embark for N.Y. by the John Denniston, 
I wrote to you a few hasty lines, 
with a view to make him known to you as 
one desirous of obtaining all the necessary 
information for collecting plants in Liberia, 
and here he has no time to prepare himself. 
Indeed I only know him from Dr. Gillies 
recommendation, but he appears obliging & 
intelligent & grateful & I am much pleased 
with a letter I received from him this morning 
from Greenock in wh [which] moreover he says 
that as the vessel [added: is detained] by contrary wind, if I 
can make [who? my? friend?] (which he knew 
I wished to convey to you) & can get it down 
to Greenock while the wind continues constantly 
he will receive it in time. So I have had 
the pleasure of selecting some plants for 
you from my B.N. Amn [Boreali North American] collection, such 
as I have described since you were here, & 
some from Australia; for I have been [dabbling?] 
in [them?] lately, & to those I have 
added Part IV of Beechey [Hooker and Walker Arnott's The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage] & Part VI of Fl. 
Bor. Am. [Hooker's Flora boreali-americana] both of which I think must 
have appeared since you came here. I am
        