<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left">This has been a sad season in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> – I have lost <choice> <sic>&</sic> <corr>an</corr> </choice> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0515023">Uncle</persName> – <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020850 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1210970546">Williams</persName> of the <choice> <abbr>Geol.</abbr> <expan>Geological</expan> </choice> Survey <lb />with whom I travelled 3 months both dead of Fever – <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0014045 http://d-nb.info/gnd/102766029">McLelland</persName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> who went to<pb n="11r-a" />carry on the survey<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> took fever & had to break up the camp. My early friend <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0115971 https://d-nb.info/gnd/117673331">Gardner</persName> <lb />at <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603">Ceylon</placeName> a first rate Naturalist <del rendition="#s">is</del> <subst> <del rendition="#ow">dead</del> <add place="across">died</add> </subst> last <date when="1849-03" calendar="#gregorian">month</date><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & poor <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">Thomson</persName>’s constitution <lb />is shattered. Hence I write in low spirits –</add>