
          plate of Ferns are very
well executed.

I have just [?] up a roll
for D. Asa Gray which will 
go in a day or two containing
a portrait of [crossed out: your] [insert: me, for you] which
Lady Hooker says is the only
good one ever made of me.

AM Henry Stevens of Morley's
Hotel London who designates
himself Agent for the Smithsonian
Institution", voluntarily
assures me that he is permitted
to received & send Scientific Books,
Print &c to & from Scientific persons
in the U.S. free of charge.
This is a great boon for [tho?] I can
send bulky parcels free, by R.M.
Hermen given [Livl.?], it is hardly,
worth sending small packages by
that convey more. Most affectionably
Yrs. W.J. Hooker

Lends # forms me in aff. rememberences
        