My dear Hooker

I grieve to think how you are worked. As Horner & myself have just agreed it is really wonderful how you get on.—

I write now only to say that I have received your enclosure of A. Gray.²

Pray put on one one side the seed list till winter;³ but do not lose it: I wish I had thought, I could have myself just as well have written to Daubeny.— There was nothing in my last letter, I am glad to think, which required any sort of answer.—

Your’s affect^y. | C. Darwin

Whenever A. Gray sends the sheets to Sir William for me, please do not send them off by coach &c. directed here, but leave them at Athenæum, or let me know,—a parcel sent here by Coach runs some risk of being lost.—