Thanks for turkey. Mrs Goodenough and himself have been ill with the "epidemic cold" common in London, she was treated "very dextrously, & most humanely" by Dr [William George] Maton. Linnean Society council meeting called for Wednesday by [Alexander] Macleay but no indication of purpose; Wednesday also the general meeting for the National Schools so unsure of his attendance. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert just called on him "almost out of his wits" about the rarities brought from Mexico by [William] Bullock [(c 1780-1849), naturalist and antiquary] and Bullock's interviews with a great Spanish botanist, who escaped from the gallows of that country, and is the successor of D'Also "of great celebrity".