
          Rcd [Received] Augt [August] 18th? 
Ansd [Answered] Sept. 8th.

Glasgow, June 9th, 1836.

My dear & excellent friend, My friend Mr. 
Sandbach of Liverpool has just called to say that 
he can take anything for me to Liverpool, where 
there is such a ready means of conveyance to all
parts of the world & especially to N. York. I 
charge him with nos. 7, 8, 9, & 10 of the Botl [Botanical] 
Miscellany & my new edition of the Compendium 
to Engl. [English] Flora, which have recently appeared & at 
the same time I sat down to address a few hasty
lines to you & to thank you most heartily for your 
most gratifying letters of the 7th & 8th of April & for
giving me the opportunity of making Mr. Leonard's 
acquaintance. He spent only 1 day in Glasgow &
that chiefly with us, but he intends returning 
here again & remaining some time. He shall have 
every facility that I can obtain for him of getting 
access to any to our manufacturing establishments, only as 
I tell him much caution must be used, for some 
of the proprietors are exceedingly jealous of your 
nation, & the very first look that Mr. Leonard
fixed his eyes upon in my room was a book 
just sent me by a friend of mine, in which he 
endeavours to [?] that if our government do not pay
more attention to the interests of the cotton specimens 
&. you transatlantic gentlemen will undersell us 
at the foreign markets. I think your friend will
obtain access to all he wishes to see. We were delighted 
to hear so much of you & your from Mr. Leonard, 
who was not a little pleased to find himself seated 
in the dining room directly opposite the portrait 
of an [a] valued friend. I shall do myself the 
pleasure to reply to your letter of the 7th. The account 
of Douglas and Drummond's plants will all appear in my 
        