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.

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)].