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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 J 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. HOOKEK. 



New Tobk, 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 Graminese and Cyperacese," 

 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 in the same parcel the loose sheets of an unpublished 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 



