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| Private |
| March 4/87 |
| 10, SOUTH STREET, |
| PARK LANE. W. |
| My dear Sir |
| With insular unwillingness |
| to delay, - in which we differ |
| so widely from our Eastern |
| fellow subjects - I have tried |
| while you were yet in England |
| to get something started as |
| to your finding a London |
| publisher for your "Elementary |
| Botany", or as I persist in |
| calling it, your invaluable |
| plant & flower life. |
| I hear this very morning |
| from my emissary & cousin, |
| Mr. A. H. Clough, son of the |
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