
          reduced family from what
we had about us when you were
with us in Scotland. Two have
fallen a sacrifice to consumption.
Our eldest daughter Maria
married as you know
a Scotch free Kirk Minister;
my only remaining son, Dr.
Hooker, after distinguishing
himself as a traveller, has
married a year & a half ago
the eldest daughter of the Revd.
Professor Henslow & is just
now blessed by the birth
of a lovely boy. My only
remaining unmarried daughter
[added: Elizabeth] will next month be
married to a medical 
gentleman the son of a
clergyman in Norfolk.
Dr. Hooker lives close by
us & with his friend &
fellow traveller, Dr. [Thomas] Thomson [1817-1878]
(son of the [added: late] Glasgow Professor of
        