
          Glasgow, Novr. [November] 1, 1838.

My dear Sir

I have the pleasure to recieve [receive] 
this morning your kind letter of
the 8th of this month together with 
the sheets of your excellent Flora, 
which however, [crossed out: which] I regret to say 
are not continuous. Pages 241 to 248 
inclusive [added: are wanting]. Pray bear this in mind when
you send the next parcel.

I am heartily glad we are so soon to
have the pleasure of seeing Dr. Gray. My
£10 you propose to send by him is a 
matter of no consequence. I wish you
could help me to explain the matter of 
the Duke's £10. His very liberality makes me 
the more anxious about it, and its being a bill, 
for if it were cash I could easily 
replace it, though I might by so doing so, be
paying dear for what is, after all, some 
blunder of my own. But the Duke did
send me a bill on Coutts for £10, & to the 
best of my belief I forwarded it to you, or for
        