Invites Smith to lecture at the Bristol Institution next spring; requests terms. Smith can obtain plants for demonstration from nursery garden of Mr Miller, late of Sweets & Miller, just outside Bristol; his collection of hardy and tender exotic plants equals any for sale.

Accepts invitation to lecture at Bristol Institution. Proposes that they begin after 13 June, following his London Institution lectures and completion of Linnean Society business; he is being paid 100 guineas for 10 lectures at London Institution; prefers to give 3 lectures a week; other requirements, including complimentary tickets. Warns that all is dependent on his "uncertain health", a residence in London frequently brings on his pulmonary inflammation.