After attending Smith's botanic lectures in London has a question on "Luccams" oak, sometimes called evergreen, an "accidental variety from seed of 'Qu[e]rcus cerris'. Debates why its leaves remain on the tree longer than those of deciduous oaks.

Thanks Smith for his letter and invites him to visit her and her husband [Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham]. Interested in obtaining 'Strelitzia reginae' from the Chelsea Physic Garden.

She has a plant flowering that [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert thinks is the first 'Satyrium plantageum' to flower in England as it is not in "Hortus Kewensis"; offers to send it along with 'Pharos latifolia.

Sends drawing of an 'Epidendron' just flowering [Smith annotation: "'Epidendron cochleatum', figured in Jacquin"]; offers to send flower. Also has 'Ophrys latifolia' and 'Hydrangea hortensia' about to flower.

Intends to attend Smith's botanical lectures in London. Hopes Smith visit to Windsor was pleasant.

Thanks for Sierra Leone roots and seeds. She has been very ill; in Buxton for the waters. Hopes Smith received benefit from his trip to Matlock, [Derbyshire]. Sorry to hear of bad account from Sierra Leone [Adam Afzelius was stationed there as botanist to the Sierra Leone Company].

Forgot to mention that the Cape Coast lily she sent Smith was from the Marquess of Bath, who had it from a young man he sent to Africa; he did not know what part of Africa it was from.

Her hot-house and conservatory in "great prosperity"; she must leave without seeing 'Blackaea trinerva', 'Eugenia jambos', and "more curious things" flower. Her gardener, Muns, will send Smith anything he desires. Received 'Geranium tricolar' from the Queen [Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)]. Sorry to hear of Smith's loss from Sierra Leone but glad the colony goes on well [Adam Afzelius was stationed there as botanist to the Sierra Leone Company]. Fears [Richard] Salisbury has forgotten his promise to give her a plant of 'Sterculia balanghus'.

Congratulations on Smith's engagement to Pleasance Reeve. The cinnamon tree not likely to open its flowers for a week to ten days. Death of [John] Sibthorp, asks whether Smith will apply for Sibthorp's post as a professor at Oxford.

Thanks for seeds. [John] Harriman found 'Gentiana verna' in this neighbourhood; asked [James] Sowerby to credit Harriman with its discovery when figured in "English botany". Harriman has also found a rare 'Ribes patreana'.

Offers to pay [John] Harriman's lifetime FLS subscription, following Lambert's assistance in having him admitted. Her gardener preparing the seeds Lambert sent.

Requests to anonymously pay [John] Harriman's lifetime FLS subscription as FLS. Asks whether Smith thinks the "famous" 'Cycas revoluta' at Farnham Castle, [Surrey], is sage as commonly bought or not.