
          write a Botanical letter
to you at another time.

My object just now
is to make known to
you my friend Dr.
Alexander, a well informed
botanist &
traveller. He has seen
a good part of Europe
& has travelled a considerable 
way in 
South Africa & is now
wishing to gratify himself
by an excursion
in the New World.
Kindly recieve [receive] him as
a friend of mine & 
        