My Dear Sir,

Thanks for your letter just received.² 

Your courtesy, I fear, must lead you into troublesome correspondences. I wait for your book with inexpressible impatience, and you will see in the paper I send that I guard myself as being liable to your correction.³

I gave a rough paper on the subject at our meeting last night, because D^r. Braithwaite of London took the trouble to come down a few weeks ago to deny all the facts in connection with the Droseraceae.⁴  This will account for many liberties I have taken with your name. The report is not very accurate but it is substantially so.

I shall develop my paper into a book but I shall wait till yours has appeared that I may cover myself with your mantle.⁵ 

Meantime I shall go over absorption again

Yours faithfully | Lawson Tait

Please do not acknowledge this unless you have fault to find with any thing I may have said