TO MATHEW CAREY, ESQ. 

 MEMBER 



OF THE 



A3IERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, $c. 



My Dear Sir, 

 IT is gratifying to me to avail myself of the first opportunity 

 which has presented itself, of testifying in a public manner, my sen- 

 timents of respect to my publisher, my friend—and, I may with 

 propriety add, to one of the patrons of American Botany, if the works 

 which you have enabled me to issue may be deemed any acquisition 

 to that science. I should not have engaged in them without your en- 

 terprise, nor executed them without your aid. 



Hitherto, while you had any interest in those publications, motives 

 of delicacy prevented me from a public declaration of my senti- 

 ments. Now that you have retired from an arduous and respectable 

 business in which you have usefully, honourably, and I am happy to 

 add, profitably spent the larger portion of your life— I can pursue that 

 course towards you, which your well-earned character as a scholar. 



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