
          from any expression. But indeed I do 
not how we can ascertain the matter, unless 
you happen to have my letter by you 
where I mentioned the fact, & what I
there said I did with the bill, that 
I did. Perhaps you can ask them to send 
those 2 letters of theirs to you & you will 
see how far they tally with your recollection. 
I am really sorry to trouble you 
thus in such a matter. It is possible 
I did not send it through Vance & Shaw,  
& so I beg you to be assured that I attach 
blame to no one but myself, for doing 
the thing so carelessly.

I did myself the great pleasure of writing 
to you pretty fully lately & sending 
you some more of my botl. [botanical] lucubrations, 
& I troubled you with some little matters 
for our friends. My son William being
now a professor, he is gone to Edinburgh to 
consult with Dr. [Robert] Christison as to his lectures 
books &c. Joseph is working at the same table
with me & putting in order my Van Diemen's
Land plants, ready for publication. 
My father is reading a Bible with a large 
print (& is the best employed of all of us). Lady
Hooker & the girls (except Maria who is in England)
        