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which I am now engaged, unless something else turns 

 up in the mean time. . . . 



Tell mother I have for her a copy of Barnes's 

 *' Notes on the Gospels," but I want to read it myself 

 before I send it up. Perhaps I can't spare it until I 

 come up. I think you will all be very much pleased 

 with it. I wish I could also send you his " Notes on 

 the Acts and Romans." Please ask Mr. Rogers, or 

 any of your merchants when they come to New York 

 this spring, to drop a line in the post-office for me, 

 that I may take the opportunity of sending home by 

 them. I wish I could come up this spring, but I see 

 that I shall not be able. Do you take a religious 

 newspaper ? Please write to me soon. May the Lord 

 prosper you and keep you all. 



Yours truly and affectionately, 



A. GRAY. 



TO W. J. HOOKER. 



NEW YORK, April 4, 1835. 



DEAR SIR, Your kind letter of December 11, 

 with the parcel of books you were so good as to send 

 me, were in due time received, for both of which I 

 beg you to accept my thanks. Perhaps you will do 

 me the favor to accept a copy of the second part of 

 the " North American Graminea3 and Cyperacea3," 

 being a continuation of my attempt to illustrate our 

 species of these families, the plan of which, I am 

 gratified to learn, meets your approbation. I inclose 

 in the same parcel the loose sheets of an unpublished 

 portion of the third volume of the " Annals of the 

 New York Lyceum of Natural History," compris- 

 ing an attempt at a monography of the genus Rhyn- 

 chospora. A more perfect copy, with a copy of the 



