
          Recd [Received] Oct. 17 
Ansd [Answered] Decr [December] 8th

Yarmouth, Augt [August] 10, 1835.

My dear Sir 
I very much regretted that I could not 
write to you & send a parcel to you before I 
left home (10 days ago) for 4 or 5 weeks. But 
it was impossible. During the spring & summer 
of this year I have been more than usually 
occupied, for during that period I had to give 
3 (instead of one) complete courses of botany, &
besides visitors in my house I had much 
to do & many publications to put into a state 
of forwardness. Then I have had much thrown 
upon my hands on account of the death of poor
Douglas in the Sandwich Islands & soon after 
again, but the distressing intelligence of the 
death of Mr. Drummond which took place in 
Cuba. This industrious fellow had done all 
that he could during an 18 mos [month] stay in Texas 
at Christmas. He returned to N. [New] Orleans a& embarked 
for Apalachiacola. There he found he could 
not conveniently penetrate into the southern 
interior of Florida, so he took shipping for Havanna [Havana], 
intending from thence to cross over to Key
West, but it was otherwise ordained; my first 
letter from the Consul contained the news of his 
decease. I wish heartily, as was his & our intention, 
that he had kept to the mainland of 
America. Bentham came & spent most of 
the month of July with me, & we came to England 
together. He joined his family in Derbyshire & I
went to pay a visit to the Duke of Bedford at Woburn
        