Dear Darwin

It is sad to think of, that I should be weeks in England without setting eyes upon you, But the time that Hooker tells me is fixed is most convenient every way for our visit,—and we are as busy and happy as the day is long.²

This is to ask you if you raised this year and have any seeds of Passiflora gracilis that you would send by post to

Rev. R. W. Church³

Whatley, Frome

Somersetshire.—

to whom I have just sent your Climbing Plants paper.⁴

If you have not, please send this on to M^r W^m Thompson, Ipswich,⁵ who will I know kindly send a few, if not now, yet before they will be wanted.

Ever Yours | A. Gray