observed in Wisconsin and in Ohio where it is very rare. I do not question you about California nor Oregon nor 

 English America, but only in regards the territory that is most familiar to you and that is from the Mississippi to 

 the Atlantic Océan and which includes the Alleghanies that could provide a Trientalis around the south of 

 Pennsylvania. If you should have some information to give me on them, I pray that you let me know as soon as 

 possible as my work is already quite advanced . I am eager to see it published so that I am free to go to 

 something else. 



In any case tell me about yourself, that you are well, that the médical practice allows you some leisure time and 

 that you continue to decipher the vast field of American botany. This would give me great pleasure, as I like 

 hard workers, scarcely being an example, and I specially like those who can unravel the obscure genders, as 

 must be the discuta. 



Receive again, my dear Doctor renewed assurances of my sentimental attachment 



J. Gay 



translation Manfred Thurmann 



