
          from my chair, though that is very much 
reduced by [crossed out: by] some very shabby new regulations. 
My income from my writer corner alone this year 
is 180 guineas less than it was last year. And in 
summer I do not see where the students are to come 
from, as they may now attend any itinerant 
lectures in any medical schools of Dublin or 
London.

I am putting up a few books for you & our
other American friends. Not that I have done so 
much of late as I ought to have done. I had to 
make two journies [journeys] to England last year, one of them 
of long continuance, & [crossed out: that] the marriage, & birth 
& death, & sickness, & the fitting out two sons for 
distant voyages have all occupied my mind & 
my time. Still I have not been idle as a botanist.
I have also drawn up a brief memoir 
of the Duke of Bedford, confining myself however 
mainly to the services he has rendered to horticulture 
& botany, which indeed alone come under 
my province. The Revd. Mr. Blunt pronounced 
an excellent funeral éloge upon him 
in the church of [crossed out: Oakley] [added: Chenies], the day after the remains 
were interred in the family vault there. You 
know he died in Scotland, & a letter he wrote
to me was almost the last he ever penned.

Botany flourishes. There are many collectors 
abroad who meet with good encouragement. I hope 
you are sending some to the south & west. Gardner 
is doing wonders in Brazil & Hardweg is 
making admirable collections in Mexico. Schomburgk,
besides the famous victories, has collected 
an Utricularia 5 feet high, & a plant with
flowers something like Begonia & leaves of Sarracenia.
[Teyler?] has sent home some excellent collections 
        