50 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1835, 
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, 
w York, April 4, 1835. 
Dear Srr,— Your kind re 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 Graminee and Cyperacez,” 
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in the same parcel the loose sheets of an unpublished 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 
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