Sorry Dr [George] Williams failed in Oxford election by so large a majority. His second son is at Christchurch, Oxford, lists efforts made to help him settle in; it is now compulsory to attend Divinty lectures during the hunting season.

Had planned to spend August at Redcar, [Yorkshire], a bathing-place near mouth of the Tees but so uncomfortable they went to Scarborough instead. The coasrt at has loose sand hills with 'Arundo arenaria' and 'Carex arenaria'. Gathered some saltmarsh plants near Chichester in summer of 1802. Last spring experimented with Forsyth's composition [for healing injured trees] on fruit trees and young oaks and though initially dissatisfied with it thinks it has now answered in most of his trials; details results from a laurel.

Can find no person to tell him systematically what proportion of cock pheasants to hen pheasants should be killed and dicusses Lord Paget's figures; his pheasants are much scarcer this year after carrion crows destroyed nearly 100 eggs.