
          Recd. Apr. 2nd
And. April 5th

Cambridge 24 Mar. 1841.

Dear sir
Being about to visit Endland &C.
I write to inform you, in the hope that I may
have the pleasure to be useful to you in some way.
I shall be happy to take any letter or parcels
for England, Paris, or Geneva. If you have occasion
to send to Sir W.J. Hooker, Prof. D.C. Candeolle, Dr. 
Boott, or Mr. Duby (to whom you advised me to
write) and would mention the bearer as me of
[?] correspondants it will greatly gratify me.
I have never before been placed in a situation to
desire letters of introduction and feel a good deal of
delicacy in regard to them. Add to this that the
circumstances in which I make the voyage are such
that I canno expect to be master of my time
at any place, and know not certainly where we
        