The managers of the Royal Institution ask whether Smith would deliver a third course of lectures on botany in 1806. The last course gave "universal pleasure and satisfaction".

[Smith has briefly annotated his reply] Accepts the offer but would like to make the course longer.

Met [William] Westall [(1781-1850) painter and engraver] at Sir Joseph Banks' just returned from [Matthew] Flinders' [(1774-1814) naval officer] expedition [to circumnavigate Australia]. His plant specimens were wrecked on a sandbank but he saved his drawings. Would like Smith to arrange an introduction to Westall as he is a relative. Received seeds from Lady [Amelia] Hume. A dispute between Banks and [Robert John] Thornton [(c 1768-1837), physician and writer on botany] originating from Thornton applying for Banks' portrait [for inclusion in "New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus"]. Thornton also in a "sad scrape" with [William George] Maton for obtaining a copy of Maton's engraving of Linnaeus from his engraver.

[Letter incomplete: half of second folio cropped, presumed destroyed]