From John Lindley   28 January 1831

My dear Sir

A fit of sickness, the consequences of a severe cold caught last Wednesday at the Ent ^l Society fête, enables me to answer your note of the 28 ^th (only this morning read by me) – instanta – I send you the Digit. Ms. with pleasure. To it I have added a few things which may possibly interest you. & your plant of Fumaria. I have marked my opinion on each specimen; about F. Vaillantii it seems there can be no doubt.

In this parcel of Fumarias I find your letter of the 26 ^th Jan. still unanswered! Pray forgive my remissness – which in correspondence is incorrigible– All the grasses you sent had been named by Plinius; you can therefore mark them as you please.– Upon again looking at your letter I think I must have ans. ^d it: I hope I have

I have put a few drawings into the parcel but I fear they will be useless to you.

I suppose you have seen Bicheno’s letter in Taylor’s Magazine about me, Brown & Bauer. I confess I think I was quite right in refusing to been Mr Bauer’s champion– The disavowal I gave him was for the express purpose of enabling him to make public in print, if he chose– The fact is I think Brown has treated Bauer very ill, and therefore I left the former to the tender mercy of the Scotch critic.

Believe me | ever yours very faithfully | John Lindley