
          Recd. [Received] May 18th

Glasgow, March 22, 1837.

My dear friend, I see by the papers that a
vessel is announced from the Clyde in a day 
or two for N. [New] York, & I am anxious to write to 
you, to send you & one or two other friends a little 
parcel & to thank you for your last most 
welcome parcel. I think it is your last kind 
letter which is now before me, dated Septr. [September] 1836. 
To that I did myself the pleasure of replying
speedily, because I was anxious to contribute 
to the expenses of the collector you had found 
to go to Santa Fé, and to share in his discoveries. 
I sent £10 for this purpose to your friend Mr. 
Shaw, who acknowledged its receipt, & I also 
informed you that if the person would collect 
seeds & living plants & especially Cacteae 
the Duke of Bedford, to whom I wrote on the 
subject, would send £10 also. Indeed I begged
you to draw upon me at once for the moment 
if a return of that kind could be made. I have 
now to say that Mr. Webb (P.R. [Philip Barker] Webb Esq. of
Paris, author of the Botany &c of the Canary 
Islands) wishes to have plants from this collector 
& will either subscribe £5 pounds or [?] specimens
at the price stipulated whichever may
be most agreeable to you or to the collector. If all 
        