Glasgow.
Jan. 12. 1833
My dear Sir
I have at length accomplished the division of Drummond 1’s Missouri & more southern plants, for the Subscribers & have today sent off the London sets to the care of the Hortl Socy 2. Lindley 3 will take charge of yours.
| From StLouis New Orleans* | 430 species – | £ | 8· | 12· | – |
| Alabama | 240 do – | 4· | 16· | – | |
| St Louis | 110 – | 2· | 4· | – | |
| Share of freight to Glasgow & Paper | 1· | – | – | ||
| 16 – 12 4 |
For want of funds Drummond visited Alabama before going to the Westward. He needed a Waggon in Texas as the only means of conveying his Collections except on his back, when they must necessarily be very small. I advanced him £80 & I hope before this he is at Natchetochez & that the early spring may find him in Texas. Yet I am not sure if he is not now in as good ground, the country of Maclura aurantiaca. I do hope his collections will now be so extensive that there may be no occasion to raise the price to £2.10 – not that I think that sum would have been too great in the first instance, seeing the very great expense attending his outfit & the voyage to New York & the heavy cost of getting about with his luggage & of living in Louisiana.
May I beg of you some good specimens of Cnicus tuberosus from the isle of Wight?5 this is a capital discovery of yours. If you care anxiousabout any of our rarer alpine plants of Scotland I shall be happy to send them to you.
Believe me my dear Sir most faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker.
*These are numbered & the Numbers correspond with a list of names prepared for publication.
W. H. F. Talbot Esqre
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