Bolander, Henry N. 

 1865, October 19th 

 San Francisco, Calif. 



TRANSLATION 



San Francisco, October 19th, l365 



Dear Ffiend, 



I had just mailed my letter when your kind letter of Sei^tember 21st arrived. 

 I am very sorry that you waited so long in vain, but even with my best intentions 

 I am not always able to be punctual« Also, tliese small requests require more 

 work than necessary; let rae explain. As long as Prof. Brewer was ;here, I also 

 collected plant seeds (however not of the same oaks) and transferred them 

 regularly at the end of the year to his collection with the express proviso 

 to send you the ones you like best (also at a tirae when I was in correspondence 

 with you) • This and many other things were not done and I have to go again 

 in the fields which I already exploited extensively. Another reason which 

 made it difficult to be in time was the great mess the herbarium of our society 

 was in. The things one wanted, one certainly did not find. Only some months 

 ago I received a large case and other things to create some order. Now I work 

 as much as I can to sort the things. This long talk is to apologize for my 

 delay. I shall put into this letter as much as I can, the rest, however, in your 

 box. I still found another specimen of Ohara N o. 2, whicrh was collected not 

 far frora here and I shall try to make an excursion to that place in order to 

 possibly obtain better material. 



Among one of the specimens of Gall. from Rapier River ^'I found a piece of 

 Ohara and I reraember very well that they were numerous, however, I did not 

 collect them since I did not know.anybody who would determine them and because 

 I hoped to be able to botanize there frequently. 



The paper about the oaks has reached me, 1 believed I had already 

 mentionted it — my sincerest thanks. 



^^ Mersiles I saw only one part of it; it was collected near Marysville 

 and was sent to us in a letter. It might be possible to obtain this if)lant 

 through the same kind hand. I shall try. Of Lavetis I hardly found any trace. 



