
          Recd. [Received] Apr. 5th
Ansd. [Answered] Decr. [December] 1839

Glasgow, Feb. 12, 1839.

My dear friend

Mr. Murray [added: has] just told me of the gardener who 
is going to N. York. He starts to morrow & I must 
send you a few lines at least. But though I had
a nice long letter from Dr. Gray this morning 
I dare not hope to give you news of him, for 
I know he writes to you often & by a quicker conveyance 
than that which now presents itself 
to me. He too I dare say will have told you 
how nicely we (that is he & I & Joseph) managed 
to meet in London, to have quarters near each 
other & to share many happy days together. We 
breakfasted with Brown, dined with Lambert & 
Bentham &c. went together to the Hotl. Socy's [Horticultural Society's]
Garden, to Kew &c &c &c. I left him (& he will 
certainly work better now that I am away) with 
much employment before him, & much he has 
already accomplished. He must be to you an invaluable 
coadjutor, & I assure you he has 
been to me, both in Glasgow the most agreeable 
companion, such as I should rejoice to see 
again. I do not know that I have 
yet thanked you for the 2d. part of your 
admirable Flora. I have already had occasion 
to make much use of it & can bear witness to 
its accuracy. Friend Nuttall makes too many 
species & I sometimes think genera, & he does not 
enough know what others have done before him. 
        