Glasgow.
June 30

My dear Sir

I am extremely obliged to you for the two kind letters, one cont^g £7. 1. 6 ^<1> which settles your account with M^r Drummond; ^<2> and the other cont^g an offer of some specimens ^<3> from the Ionian Islands. For these I shall be very thankful: & if left at any time with M^r Hunneman, 9, Queen street, Soho,^<4> they will reach me very safely.

Thank you, too, for forwarding my packages to Italy, & for the three Fasciculi of Bertoloni’s work, ^<5> which I think admirable. By it I was able to determine an Irish Scirpus new to Britain, S. Savii, hitherto only described as a native of Italy. I have given a figure of it in the Supplement to English Botany ^<6> very lately.

I would have done myself the pleasure of writing to you before, but my time has been so much occupied with my Lectures, that I have scarcely been able to think of any thing else. I have been preparing for them a very large set of new drawings on an Atlas folio size. I have a month’s more employment yet with my Lectures.

Please to let the enclosed be put [illegible deletion] into the 2^dy Post ^<7>.

Most faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker

Part III of Bot^l. Journal ^<8> is just finished. I have been continuing the list of Cuming’s ^<9> plants there.

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Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 02909.

2. Thomas Drummond (1793-1835), Scottish botanical collector; died in Cuba in early March 1835.

3. See Doc. No: 02922.

4. James Hunneman, London nurseryman

5. See Doc. No: 02816 and again Doc. No: 02909. Prof Antoine Bertoloni (1793–1868), Italian botanist, Flora Italica… (Bologna: R. Masi, 1833–1854).

6. William Jackson Hooker, Supplement to the English Botany of the late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr Sowerby … (London: 1831–1866).

7. The twopenny Post.

8. William Jackson Hooker, The Journal of Botany (London, Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, etc.; A & C Black, 1834–1842).

9. Hugh Cuming (1791–1865), botanical collector.