Addresses Smith as Chair of the Committee of the Bristol Institution. Aware of Smith's offer to lecture through his letter to Revd M Maurice but forced to decline it as their programme for spring is already full and they would not be able to guarantee proper support for an additional course of lectures. Will communicate with Smith about lecturing in the autumn or next spring.

Bristol Institution thanks Smith for his good wishes; usefulness of the Institution. Responds to Smith's queries about botanical part of a course of lectures held at the Institution; an application for second course rejected.

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.