
          Mr [Jean Jules] Linden the Belgian naturalist on arriving at
the [bay?] found a vessel bound to his own country
and sailed in her, you would have been much 
pleased with him, he has spent four years in
Brasil & this country and acquired a vast
fund of useful information on Scientific subjects
connected with his mission. He will probably
be sent N. S. [New South] Wales, should you be inclined to open
a correspondence with him, make use of my name
you are already favorably known to him, & he will
no doubt be gratified by your overtures & be
a very agreeable correspondent.

I think you must be mistaken in relation
to Mr Stevens expedition to Palenque I have never
heard of his being in this state. I once sent you
a remarkable head from Palenque with well defined
negro features, I say remarkable from its being the
only one I have seen of this description. I should 
be pleased to know whether it was received.

I gives me much pleasure to learn that
you are about to come before the world on a subject
that will be sure to open to you the path to fame
& honor, but I fear that its extensive scientific
character will almost preclude the hope of
deriving profit or even a fair renumeration for
years of toil & study. I wish I could procure
subscribers, but in this country there are none who
study botany. You will please to put my name down
and deliver the work to Mr [Goodhue?] who will pay for it, on
showing him that paragraph, it may be of as [?] use
        