Planning to study the herbariums in Oxford before coming to London. Has heard nothing of the Linnean Society taking rooms at the late Sir Joseph Banks' home. Will send Cullum a coloured copy of his "Grammar of Botany".

[John] Denson [(fl 1820s-1870s, curator of Bury botanic garden] sent him thirty specimens to examine and a copy of his catalogue [of plants in Bury botanic garden]. Found 'Aurum dracunculus' "flowering & stinking" in his garden though not as tall as Cullum's. Cullum's parakeet is 'Gingi psittacus' as figured in the "Planches Enluminées". Experiencing an improvement in health and walked to Mrs Crowe's; the willows all growing well. Placed all of Lady Gage's insects in his cabinet. Sends Cullum copies of Linnaeus' "Orbis eruditi judicium" and "Observationes in Regnum Lapideum". Resuming work on his "English Flora", Edward Forster approves of that already done.

Received gift of four curious gold coins from Mr Barnwell. Has lately visited Lowestoft, Birmingham, and Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] but suffering from a pulmonary attack brought on by the travelling. Miss [Elizabeth] Coke engaged to [John] Spencer-Stanhope [(1787-1873)] of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire. Pleased with the society of Birmingham.

Intends to visit Cullum in Bury after visiting his Kindersley cousins at Sunning Hill. Three hundred people attended Horticultural Society dinner. Has the book "Menagiana" mentioned by Cullum, amused and informed by it.

Had hoped to send Cullum his "[English] Flora" for his patronage but held up by 'Rosa' and 'Rubus', has doubled the number of species of latter. Has now completed more than half his work on "Flora Graeca". Yet to receive [Augustin Pyramus] de Candolle's new work ["Prodromus systematis naturalis..."] but observed many errors in characters and references his "[Regni vegetabilis] Systema [naturale]" and his adoption of names according to date means he cannot be an authority.

Cullum correct about the two species of 'Sirex'. Received seeds and roots from [John] Denson [(fl 1820s-1870s, curator of Bury botanic garden], and intends to send Cullum willow cuttings from Mrs Crowe's. Dr [Martin] Davy of Caius [College, Cambridge], [William] Roscoe, the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)], and [John Dunn] Hunter [(c 1798-1827)], an American brought up "among the wild Indians", whose narrative he recommends ["Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America..." (1823)], all at Holkham, [Norfolk, home of Thomas William Coke] during his last visit.

Still weak from a "tedious illness" but to visit Saxmundham, [Suffolk], to see Lady Smith's aunt. Would like to visit Cullum in August. Received bad shock from the peripneumony which followed bad fit of influenza, and overwhelmed by business letters.

Glad to hear of Lady Cullum's recovering health; his own is improving and now only suffers rheumatism in his knees when rain is approaching. Found 'Senecio lividus', 'Rubus glandulosus', and 'Centaurea jacea' very distinct from 'nigra', in woods of Blaise Castle, [Henbury]. Pities Cullum for being in Oxford during race week, "races, fairs & elections are the pests of sober travellers". Index to third volume of "English Flora" delayed by illness but printing now almost complete. His travel plans: intends to visit [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert at Boyton, [Wiltshire]; Salisbury, [Wiltshire]; Winchester, [Hampshire]; his Kindersley cousins at Sunning Hill, [Berkshire]; [Thomas Furly] Forster at Hoe Street, Walthamstow, [Essex]; and attend meetings of Horticultural and Linnean Societies on 1 November. Considers it "an honour to have been thought of & invited by so large a portion of the enlightened & learned part of the University" [in reference to his failed campaign to become Cambridge botany professor]._x000D_

[Letter incomplete: two-thirds of second folio cropped, missing text presumed destroyed]