i. 18 October 1839 - Glasgow - Arrival of Ceylon box. Translation of Schimper's paper, payments to Steudal, Hochstatter, Gardner's Brazilian plants, Matthews's Andes (plants), news of Drège's plants.
ii. 30 October 1839 - Glasgow - Gardner's plants.
iii. 5 November 1839 - Glasgow - Gardner's plants. Mr. Khull (sic) and the Botanical Journal.
iv. 2 January 1840 - Glasgow - Khul's (sic) publications, disposal of some of his plants-three very large chests of mosses. Mentions "The Unio Itinerarium."
v. 9 January 1840 - Glasgow - (As above.) Bentham's service in my Journal of Botany, Hartwig's plants.
vi. 24 April 1840? - Glasgow - Plants from Madeira, package for Mr.Murray.
vii. 25 June ? - Glasgow - Non receipt of Linnaea.
viii. 14 February 1850 - London - (From W.P.) Accounts, Linnaea, Mr. Gardner's affairs. Species Filicum 2 pt. 1.
ix. 22 April 1850 - Kew - Funeral of relative, material ready for printing. Gardner's money.
x. 12 June 1852 - Species Filicum plates. Proposal to W.P. to publish a Century of new or little-known ferns. Linnaea vol. xx.
xi. 14 June 1852 - London - W.P.'s reply to above.
xii. 21 June 1852 - Kew - Reply to above. Legal position re. Icones Plantarum and proposed Century od rare ferns.
xiii. 27 September 1852 - Kew - Problems with printer of the continuation of Cheilanthes argentea.
xiv. 11 October 1852 - Kew - Pritxel's Thesaurus Botanicus and needs Presl's Epimilice Botanicae.
xv. 20 October 1852 - Stones to commence the Century of ... Ferns (and Vol. 10 of Icones Plantarium) Cheilanthes in Drs. Hooker's and Thomson's Indian Herbarium.
xvi. 26 October 1852 - Kew - Lithographic stones and colouring of these for ferns. Does not want the Moreton Bay plants.
xvii. 2 November 1852 - Kew - (As above) and M. Fées Monograph of Ferns.
xviii. 4 November 1862 - Kew - Lovell Reeve and no. of impressions struck off for Icones.
xix. 15 November 1852 - Kew - Genera et Sp. Filicum and Cheilanthes.
xx. 18 November 1852 - Kew - (As above.).
xxi. 24 ? 1853 - Kew - has been unwell. Proofs for Century. Long passage about M.Boissier.
xxii. 31 January 1853 - Kew - Century of Ferns, M. Fée. Presl, Fitch and lithographic plates.
xxiii. n.d. - Kew - M. Fée's Acrosticeae, H's Journal, Fitch and lithographic plates.
xxiv. n.d. - Kew - Mr. Brocas and his disappointment in the Oxford affair.
xxv. n.d. - Kew - Mr. Brocus.
xxvi. 24 February 1853 - Kew - (As above.).
xxvii. 26 February 1853 - Kew - (As above.).
xxviii. 1 March 1853 - Kew - (As above.).
xxix. 1853? - Kew - Mr. Brocas and memoirs by him in The Cottage Gardener. Dr. Klotsch and Dr. Daubeney.
xxx. (1853?) 9 March - Kew - Mr. Brocas, Daubeney and Dr. Wickham.
xxxi. 23 March 1853 - Kew - Acknowledging £40 in payment for 6th part of Sp. Filicum.
xxxii. 29 March 1853 - Kew - Request for payment from M. Moricand through Mr. Cuming for plants.
xxxiii. 4 April 1853 - Kew - Proofs of Century of Ferns Tab. 929-954. Acknowledgement for payment from M. Moricand.
xxxiv. 23 April 1853 - Kew - £50 for purcahse of copies. Mr. Bell Salter, Miss Bromfield. (part of letter missing.).
xxxv. 29 April 1853 - Kew - Miss Bromfield.
xxxvi. 5 June 1853 - Kew - Plates and proofs of Ferns 971-986, 959-960.
xxxvii. 10 June 1853 - Kew - Glad that Dr. Bell Salter is willing to carry out publication of Dr. Bromfield's work. Mr. Bentham and others seemed to think "Flora of the Isle of Wight" better than "Flora Vectensis ... " Working on 88th plate of the Century of Ferns.
xxxviii. 9 July 1853 - Kew - Dr. Bromfield's work. Hopes that Dr. Bell Salter will not make his account of Rubi overlong.
xxxix. 16 August 1853 - Kew - Lithographic stones of the 100 Ferns and needful proofs. Enquires if Dr. Bromfield's family would desire his book to be dedicated to Prince Albert - willing to ask for his permission.
xl. 1853 - Kew - Re. Osbourne and dedication of the Flors of the Isle of Wight. "The Prince is very happy to accept the dedication." Century of Ferns Tab. 901 and 902 and proofs to Mr. Fitch.
xli. 31 August 1853? - Kew - Ferns 967 and 980. Going to Norfolk - Thomas Brightwell. Mr. Petit.
xlii. 1 September 1853 - Kew - Sending of plants to Mr. Petitt.
xliii. 17 November 1853 - Asks that a framed portratit of Dr. Bromfield be sent to Rev. Prof. Henslow at Cambridge and C.C. Babington.
xliv. 24 Novmber 1853 - Kew - Printing (Mr. Petitt) and colouring of Century of Ferns. Enquires about work on American medical plants, and printing of Isle of Wight flora.
xlv. 1853? - Kew - Plates of Icones.
xlvi. 1853? - Kew - near destruction of slips belonging to Species Filicum including Cheiranthus argent.
xlvii. - 1853? - Kew - Welwitsch's Portugese collections. Asks for Fungi, Lichens, Algae, Mosses and Jungermanniae. Any news of Welwitsch's arrival in Angola? Second proof of Tab. XC of Century of Ferns.
xlix. n.d. - Kew - Colouring of plates - not to make the greens washy.
l. n.d. - Kew - Index of 10th vol. of Icones.
li. n.d. - Kew - returning proof to Mr. Newman. Away for 12 days at Bentham's Hereford. Tabs XCV and XCVI, Century of Ferns, Reeve and the Icones.
lii. n.d. - Kew - (To Mr. Newman) "Sir William Hooker has not received a corrected proof of sheet L of species Filicum ... much put out, etc."
liii. n.d. - Kew - Stone with Tabs XCIX and C of the Ferns. Enquires about Linnaea.
liv. n.d. - Kew - Proofs of plates 909-928 of Icones and 928 of Century of Ferns, etc.
lv. 28 February ? - Kew - Printing of plates for Ferns to 200. Hopes colouring will be great deal better than the first Century ... mentions the colourist for Lovell Reeve.
lvi. 26 July ? - Kew - Lithographic plates.
lvii. 31 August ? - Kew - Clean proofs of XCV - CIV of the Fern plates, etc.
lviii. 21 September ? - Kew - Proofs of Ferns ... Tabs. CV - CVI. M. Moricand's accounts and parcels sent through Mr. Hunneman and one to Bentham.
lix. 10 November ? - Kew - Proofs.
lx. 25 November 1853 - London - (Letter from W.P.) On purchase of books of the defunct Royal Medico-Botanical Society. Sends some sheets of a work on Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States. The whole volume of the Icones and the plain copies of the Century ready Jan. 1st. Proposals re. coloured copies. Index for Icones and Century. Refers to portraits.
lxi. 14 December 1853 - Kew - Does not want Dr. Welwitsch's Portuguese plants. Will take Mr. Ralph's New Zealand plants to encourage him. More on New Zealand flora. Encloses title of the Century of Ferns and discusses index of vol. X Icones very soon.
lxii. 6 January 1854 - Kew - Colouring of plates.
lxiii. 11 January 1854 - Enquiries about Humboldt & Kunth Synopsis ... as present for one of our able gardeners going as a collector to Venezuela, New Granada, etc. Final forty plates of Century of Ferns are finished. "Has Tab. XLIII been sent to me ... for colouring." (Part of letter missing.).
lxiv. 13 January 1854 - Kew - Humboldt's Synopsis. Plates of the Ferns. "The wrapper is very neat ... sufficient to announce the "Century" as a selection from the Icones.
lxv. 22 February 1854 - Kew - Problems with the Century.
lxvi. 6 March 1854 - Kew - Preface and index to the ten volumes.
lxvii. 19 May 1954 - Coloured samples - all in Mr. Fitch's hands. Requests payment.
lxviii. 30 May 1854 - Kew - Collection of Syrian plants sent to you by French botanists. Mr. Webb thinks I may wish to purchase it.
lxix. 4 March 1855 - Kew - Proposals for Mr. Brocas to work at Kew.
lxx. 14 March 1856 - Kew - Receipt for carriage.
lxxi. 17 March 1856 - Kew - Box from M. Huch (Hugh?) de Camillon of Sicilian plants.
lxxii. 17 May 1856 - Kew - Stone for Mr. Fitch for Species Filicum.
lxxiii. 14 November 1856 - Kew - Plates and proofs of Ferns CXI-CXXII, CXIII and CXIV. Asks for Dr. Hooker's Introduction to the Flora Indica. Catalogue of Garden Ferns could be published, Discusses this, mentions one by Kunze; M. Fée's names, etc.
lxxiv. 2 September 1857 - Kew - Has sadly neglected Gen. & Spec. Fil. of late. Speaks of a Flora of the B.W. Ind. Islands. Dr. Grisebach.
lxxv. 8 November 1857 - Kew - Proofs of plates for Gen. & Spec. Filicum. Deficient no.s. of Linnaea and No. 16 of Phycologist; New Series.
lxxvi. 6 February 1858 - Kew - Proofs and printer (Taylor) and booker orders.
lxxvii. 5 April 1858 - Kew - Taylor and printing, index to be provided by W.P. Determining of species - Wildenow, Swartz, Fée, I .Smith, T. Moore. Mr. Croall's fasciculi of dried plants of Braemar and difficulty of getting payments for these.
lxxviii. 12 May 1858 - Kew - Title page and table contents (Sp. Fil?). Thanks for information about copies of Schkur. "I wish Moore's little book would come out faster. It would save me a world of troubles, etc."
lxxix. 20 January 1860 - Kew - Species Filicum plates: Tab. CLXI-CLXXX and Cent. I-XXV (or XXVI). May be printed. Circumstances of fire in matter of Messrs Merritt & Hatcher. Complains dilitariness of Taylor, printer.
lxxx. 15 March 1863 - Kew - Pts. 15 and 16 Species Filicum, and receipt of £60. Wants to commence printing of 4th and last vol. Mr. Taylor's delays. Enquiries about set of Moritz's Columbian Ferns on behalf of Mr. Rawson.
lxxxi. n.d. - Needs bottles.
lxxxii. n.d. - Kew - Encloses letter from Dr. Mueller, books to be sent to Rev. Mr. Parish of Moulmein, expects all of Phillppi & Lecher's Chilian collections.
lxxxiii. n.d. - Species of Hypolepis (?).
lxxxiv. 17 March ? - Kew - Collection from four of our botanists: Jos Woods, Babington (?), Wilson Saunders and Mr. Bennet. "I do not lose sight of your proposal about specimens of ferns."
lxxxv. 26 June ? - Kew - Progress of the Fern book - plates.