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I will now beg to insert copies of letters from several 

 gentlemen known to the citizens of America generally : 



AGRICULTURAL ROOM, { 



U. S. Patent Office, May 5th, 1851. f 



The bearer, Mr. Frank Bonynge, is a gentleman who 

 has had considerable experience in the culture of tea and 

 indigo plants, and their manufacture in the East Indies, 

 and visits this country for the purpose of establishing a 

 tea plantation in such locality as shall appear most fa- 

 vorable. I have examined an essay from his pen of 

 thirty-five pages, seen his letters of commendation from 

 Liverpool, and, from information derived from Baron 

 Von Gerott, Prussian minister resident in Washington, 

 I believe him to be a man of integrity, and his purposes 

 an object of great importance to the Southern States. 

 (Signed) DANIEL LEE, 



And Editor of the Southern Cultivator, 

 AUGUSTA, GA. 



And, in another letter, Dr. Lee further writes, " Your 

 communication to the Hon. Abbot Lawrence, on the cul- 

 ture and manufacture of tea, will be published in my 

 next official report, of which Congress has ordered 130,000 

 volumes printed and bound." 

 Yours respectfully, 



(Signed) DANIEL T/FX 



F. Bonynge, Esq. 



I have conversed with Mr. Bonynge, seen a letter of 



introduction from Dr. Lee, of Washington, and read a 



manuscript of Mr. Bonynge's on the subject of the tea 



plant, and also with the productions of some plants, 



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