
          Chelsea June 4th 1859


 My dear Sir


 I am in receipt of both your
 letter of Jany [January] last and of the parcel
 of ferns received from Mr. J.G. [John Gilbert] Baker.
 I am glad to say I have for some time
 past been able to work at Index Filicum
 of which and then part is nearly all 
 printed, but I find since the attack on
 my eyes, I cannot work so continuously 
 at these matters as formerly.
 I was much please with the ferns
 you were so good as to send me, and
 beg you will receive my best thanks
 for them. A sight of some of the new
 ones was particulary useful, as it
 is sometimes difficult to make out a
 description the Japanese Polystichum
 polyblepharum, is I think identical
        