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Boott thanks Hooker for the beautiful specimens of C.[Carex] buxbaumii from Ireland. Hooker did not mention the safety of the shawl; Boott hopes it reached Lady Hooker safely. Boott shall be delighted to have Wight's Carices. They have Royle's plants from India House: apparently there are 30,000 specimens. They are to be distributed in the name of the E.I.[East India] Company and Royle is to make out the list of recipients; Hooker's name will stand high in this. Boott had a letter from Torrey today. Torrey was sent three copies of Gray's AMERICAN GRAMINEAE AND CYPERACEAE for sale. Two volumes are out and a third is to follow. They are dried volumes and Boot quotes the price of them. Boott shall offer one to Brown and Menzies but wonders if Hooker has or would like it. Eddis is making a fine portrait of Menzies. Audubon sailed on the 1 Aug with his son from Portsmouth to New York, and will be gone a year. Mrs Audubon and Victor remain in England to supervise 'the great work'. Bachman of Charleston has acquired the herbarium of the admirable Stephen Elliott. Boott has written to Bachman to urge him to produce a memoir on Elliott and will ask for any letters Elliott may have written to naturalists in England. Boott thinks Hooker alone may have letters from Elliott, as he did not find any of Elliott's specimens in 'the great herbarium'. A friend of Boott's has been examining Michaux's Carices and has figured two or three. Boott thinks C. viridula and C. miliaris are new, and that C. lenticularis is Hooker's Scotch C. aquatilis. Boott has it amongst Hooker's Arctic specimens and will send Hooker an account and drawing. Torrey congratulates Hooker and Lady Hooker on their honours. Boott takes the liberty of giving a note to Hooker to his dear friends Mr and Mrs Brooks of Boston and cannot resist asking Hooker to favour them. Mr Brooks is a distinguished merchant of New York and a man after Hooker's own heart. Mrs Boott and the children continue well. Page 1 of 4.