Sir James [Edward Smith's] health considerably improved and muscle strength regained since they met at Saxmundham, [Suffolk]. Smith constantly working at his "[English] Flora". If Lady Cullum were Smith's patient he would prescribe her James's powders for her feverish symptoms. Read of Sir William Watson's death [(1744-1824), physician and naturalist]. Regrets that Mrs Cullum [Cullum's daughter-in-law] is still ill; recommends she walk up and down the "hanging tower at Pisa". Enjoying reading Lady Morgan's [(1781-1859)] "tour in Italy". Their friend Miss Trafford in Florence accompanying the Queen and Princesses of Haiti [Marie Louise Christophe (1778-1851), wife of Henri I, and Françoise-Améthyste (d 1831) and Athénaïs (d 1838)].