Anderson has been in Darjeeling since 4 Apr making arrangements for Cinchona cultivation. In this time he has been back to Colgong for his wife. Darjeeling has changed greatly since Hooker was here: the tropical forest is felled in all directions between Darjeeling and the Terai and the valleys are either green with young tea plants or a ruin of half burnt trees. Land speculation is unparalleled and Anderson has had to go to the most out of the way place to get a few thousand acres for Cinchona. By next year not an acre of land will be left for government. He had been ordered to secure as much land as would be needed for Cinchona cultivation, about 20,000 acres. The Cinchona plants are growing admirably in Sikkim at 4000 feet despite being fully exposed to all weathers. Anderson is glad he chose Sikkim over the Khasias. He has been collecting when he can and has Wichura of the Prussian embassy to help him. Hooker may remember him looking at Salices at RBG Kew in 1859. Anderson has sent for young plants of Hodgsonia, as well as trees of the Magnoliaceae, which he shall send in wardian cases to RBG Kew. He already has a small collection of orchids that will be sent home after flowering. Anderson is sorry he is away from Calcutta [Kolkata] and the pleasant work of the 'Hort. Bot.', but as Thomson has advised that he will return on 1 Nov, Anderson could not refuse starting the Cinchona. He intends to return to Calcutta in two months to finish his catalogue and the arrangement of the glued portion of the herbarium. He hopes to send home the Indian Acanthaceae in a few months, done in the same style as the African ones. Anderson is enclosing fresh seeds of cold weather Crucifers. His wife and baby are in fine health. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.