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Received Smith's letter of 25 February. Advises Smith to set his nephew up in a London or Liverpool mercantile house that follows the Brazil trade so as to obtain a paid voyage to Brazil, where Corrêa would then be able to fulfill the promises he made to Smith in placing him in a Brazilian mercantile house.

Thanks for copy of Smith's "Grammar of Botany", hopes it will show the Horticultural Society "the usefulness of scientific botany". Hopes it is true that the Linnean Society are to take rooms in Soho Square [home of late Sir Joseph Banks]. Expects to see "Councillor Gage" at their assizes next week, he is an entertaining man but doubts he will succeed as a public speaker at the bar. Will feel the loss of Banks when he is next in London. The waters at Bath did not relieve his son's wife twelve-month long "rheumatic and gouty complaint".