
          steward & the more so on account of his unbounded
liberality. He has now actually given me £250 to 
aid in Gardner's expedition into the interior of Brazil. 
He is now publishing his collection of Pines, & on 
Monday next I am going to send him my artist 
for a month to draw Cacteae for him, which he will 
also publish. He was much pleased with your offer 
to send Hudsonia tomentosa & thankfully accepts 
it. Just address the parcel to "His Grace the Duke 
of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire," & it will 
soon reach him if sent by a Livl [Liverpool] steamer, or a London 
one either. [added: (Perhaps a line to His Grace had better be sent at the same time.)] Should the H. ericoides [Hudsonia ericoides] ever come in 
your way, that would be very acceptable too.

I thank you for having [rationed?] the duplicates 
of the Compn [Companion to the botanical magazine.] & the Fl. Bor. Am. [Flora boreali americana]. I have been wondering 
exceedingly where they could be, for I had more 
to give away. It is now explained. I left the 
doing up of the parcel to Joseph [Hooker] & desired him 
do up such copies as I marked in a list. But 
the boy did them all up, supposing they were all
to go, & I could in no way account for this disappearance. 
Arnott has been laid by 
lately from a little accident, the breaking of the tendons 
in his leg. But he is better now & at work again on his 
E. [East] Indian Boty. [Botany]. Lindley has just published 2 splendid 
nos. of Orchideae & an excellent work on medical
botany. I spent much time with Brown last year, 
for I went twice to London in the autumn, & it 
was the 2d time that I succeeded in making arrangements 
with a new bookseller for the publication 
of the rest of Beechey & of the Fl. Bor. Am. [Flora boreali americana] & of a 
new work on Bauer's plates of the genera of ferns. 
I am sorry I have not the Atakta [Atakta botanika] of Endlicher & therefore
cannot send you an account of his Ungnadia, nor do I suppose 
the book is in Scotland. I believe my copy is en route
from Vienna, but it is always as easy to get books from Pekin as
from there. It was Bentham that gave me the information about
        