I am now proud that I can announce thee the result of the last meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I was unanimously elected a Foreign Member of that Institution on the 5t.h. Instant and am at last an F. R. S..—Wilt thou not think it wonderful; to me it is like a dream, and quite as much so when I see the particular attentions paid me by all ranks of the best Society. On the 6t.h. I received the official Letter from the Secretary with the seal of the Society and the arms of Scotland—this along with my other diplomas and Letters, I assure thee enable me to be respected and well received in any portion of the Civilized World. Sir Walter Scott has also been so kind as to give me a Letter that I may exhibit wherever I may go==I have Two Letters from him very kind==all this I think will afford thee great Pleasure. I am now preparing to leave Edinburgh and will do so in a few days, I am _now_ anxious to visit London as soon as I possibly can, and yet want to spend a few days at New Castle, York, Liverpool, Dublin, then back again to England, go by Cambridge and Oxford.—If I meet the success that I expect in that Tour it is very probable that soon after my reaching London, I will write for thee to Come, and when I do so, my Lucy may come without the _least Hesitation_ for I will then be ready to receive her! Since my last of the 22d of February, I have received thine of the 31t of December, 3d of January and 8th of Do. this last mostly John's, I am particularly glad that thou hast left the Beech Woods, yet thou might as well have given me at once _thy good reasons for doing so_. I hope that at this Instant that I am writing, thou art snug and comfortably settled afresh. The Trees and Segments have not yet arrived, but I hope to hear soon that they have—I have not a word about the Seeds reaching yet. do my Love always say by what vessel any thing comes, as John as concluded to take Lessons of Music I have no wish to sell my Gun but wish to give it him as his ow[n] in Fee Simple, _as soon as he deserves it from thy own Hands_. May God bless him!—if all continues well with me Victor and him may rise to eminence and therefore try _Johny's Spunk_. do beg or make him draw all kinds of Limbs of Trees or Flowers for me and whenever he kills a bird of any kind tell him to measure the Guts _particularly_ and make a regular list of the names of the Birds, length and thickness of those Guts and their contents==[338]