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Belmont,
Bath.

June 9. /'82

My dear Sir,

Many thanks for your friendly reply to my letter.— in regard to your Father's correspondence, as you seem to be in no hurry to receive it, I think, on consideration, it would be best perhaps to leave the matter — at least for the present — entirely in my hands.— Till I look more closely into the letters, — (I mean of course those addressed to myself & in my possession) — I hardly can judge of the time & labour that would be required for copying them.

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But I shall be able to attend to the subject next week, & shall have nearly a month of leisure before I leave home. — During that period I will do what I can myself, and should I want help, I doubt not I could obtain it without troubling you in the matter, — or if necessary, will write to you further about it.— I will gladly put down on paper any thing that occurs to me in connection with your Father's college life, — but I hardly think I remember much more than what I mentioned in a letter to Sir Joseph Hooker, which

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perhaps you have seen.—

As I believe you are interested in whatever is connected with vegetable physiology, I venture to send you a short notice, by myself, in our Bath Field Club Proceedings, illustrated by photographs, of a singular callosity on the root of a Spanish Chestnut in the Park here at Bath.— I sent a copy of the paper to Berkeley, & I had a letter from him this morning on the subject, — saying that a somewhat similar case of vegetable deformity had lately been brought under notice

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to himself, & that my observation on the specimens I spoke of were quite in agreement with what he thought respecting his own.—

Believe me,

My dear Sir,

Sincerely your's,

L. Blomefield.