
          Recd June 17.
Ansd., 18.

Cambridge 14 June 1851

Dear sir
I had the pleasure to receive your
favour accompanying the plants you so kindly remem-
bered me by sending - and hasten to acknowledge of what
I do so highly value. It is the first time I ever fairly saw
Tuckermania - the only other specimen that ever I had
in my hand, being too imperfect to give me a good
notion of it. I need not say how glad I am to 
possess it - and if I can only procure at some day
[?] [?], I shall have nothing more in the Phan-
erogamia (excluding Potamogeton) to wish for.
It was a main object in me in going abroad
to shake off a dyspepsy; but German, Swedish + 
Danish cookery did not expedite the process of recov-
ery at all - and until Strawberries came (22 June
at Gottenburg - we had them after that till 4th Aug. in Paris)
I was about good for nothing. Six months passed in
Berlin, and as many more in other parts of the North
of Europe, went by with scarcely anything done, and

[margin: PS: I am sorry to say that your letters all [?] me. This is
the first I have recieved since 1848, or possibly the Spring of 1849.
May I hope for a copy of the plate of Tuckermania in your work?]
        