[Robert Graham, Scottish physician and botanist] Autograph Letter Signed Robt Graham to a Mr Gourlie Esq [Gourlie, William (1815–1856), calico printer and botanist - see ODNB

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold mark, hidden slight damage to joint not affecting text. I have again to thank you for the trouble you have taken [about?] the passage to Harris. After deliberation & consultation, & plots & counter pl;ots - it is resolved that the Exhibition shall [hold?] - & that we shall set sail by the [SLondon?] from Glasgow on 3rd at 5 A.M. - I hope it is not too late to communicate with Mr Haslam [Samuel Holkar Haslam, botanist] .- I shall write to him tonight or tomorrow - I [premise?] in the printed bill which you were good enough to send to me a proposal not likely to be followed by old travellers, [viz?] that the luggage should be sent by the [Stromer?] which leaves Glasgow the day previous - What wise man ever parted from his baggage? Moreover they talk of the necessity [underlined] of doing this. Surely they do not mean that they insist upon its being done. [......] Note: I have failed to discover which Exhibition, presumably botanical, he refers to.