From Ellen Hutchins to Dawson Turner   22 Jun 1807

Sir

I have had the pleasure to receive your kind & very interesting present. I beg you to accept my best thanks. I am very sensible of the value of your obliging attention. Your plants have given me a great deal of pleasure & have corrected many mistakes that I have made — I have met with some of them here — Fucus Ceranoides is extremely common in this part of the country. It seems confined to those situations where rivers or rivulets fall into the sea. The tops of it are eaten by poor people. —

I have got a few fine specimens of such plants as Mr Mackay has informed me you thought most rare of those I have met with. I shall have the pleasure of sending them to you. One that I could get only fragments of last season, I have this year found in a very perfect state. Of one I take the liberty to enclose a small specimen, I have much larger to send —

I should have great pleasure in preserving for you any plants of this country that you may wish for. I think to delay sending such as I have until the end of summer hoping that I may add to them. So very inexperienced a beginner as I am may hope to find many more plants on the rocky shores of this bay —

I have the honour to be your obliged

& very humble Servant

E Hutchins

Ballylickey near Bantry

June 22nd 1807 —

Since I wrote the above I have got the plant enclosed. I think you may prefer having it in its present state to having it preserved on paper. I therefore send it, I have got no more than this specimen of it —