
          meet her. I have now myself
passed that ordinary term of
man's life, 3 score years & ten:
& of the friends of my early
youth almost none remains.
I am too in the 50th year of my
botanical career, for I always
reckon that to commence with
my discovery of Buxbaumia, &
that took place ½ a century
ago exactly. May I not
hope that you will yet
once more pay a visit to
England? The voyage is more
[refined?] then it used to be. I 
am sorry we missed seeing
you daughter as she passed
through London & forwarded
[then?] the parcel here; but when
Lady Hooker called at her address
she was gone to the Continent
        