From G. E. Smith   30 June 1831

My dear Sir

Accept two or three specimens which will, I trust, be acceptable to you. I send them by a kind friend, M. ^r Glennie of Trinity.

There is a young man in this country, John Macdiarmid, who, may be called almost a native of Ceylon, who had bought with him a very large collection of drawings of the native plants of that Island, & who is desirous of employment in his favourite art, botanical painting. Can you point out to me any method of assisting him in his object – & do you look after such things as original draughts of plants?

Believe me, my dear Sir, |in much haste, | most truly yours | Gerard E Smith