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my own at all, which however, he did not really know about, as he said later. 

 Now it so happendd that he was looking among the 200 species for the above 

 mentioned Trifol. and Thlapsi and did not find them. The violence he showed 

 when he thou^ht I had gone behind his back, made ray angry since I was weak and 

 irritable anyway, and since I had written him previously that I had made this 

 collection upon his recommendation and that I gave it to him since I have bden 

 tired of it for many years. I could very well have left out some malicious words 

 which made him so excited, that I believe he wrote you in the heat of his anger. 

 It was the fact that I said that people with grey hair should think twice 

 before they speak. After three weeks we raade up again; however, he shows some- 

 times that there is still a little bit of bad feeling left. ... Without expectation 

 of any profit, I send monthly deliveries of my descriptions of Oregon and 

 Missouri territory, especially regarding their flora(they cost me every time 

 2 Prussian Groschen postage) to Sir Wm. Hooker and this will go on for some 

 raore months, since also the description of Dakotah & Iowa territories, III. & 

 Missouri is to follow. H okwr gave me apresent of 7 pounds Sterling and that 

 was when I needed it most; he also paid for the collection I am working on; but 

 my expenses, loss of time etc. come up to much more than that. Tired as I am 

 of everything in connection with the collection, I am can hardly think aboty 

 it with disgust, I still work with some interest at the description of the wild 

 areas in order I say somethinfc I saw and give the people an idea of the 

 strenousness of such an undertaking. The whole will amount to quite a decent 

 description and will be original in its kind and if you will permit it, I shall 

 dedicate this work to you as a small token of my appreciation of your friend- 

 ship. I shall write to Sir Wm. and teil him that you are not a subscriber to 

 his monthy journal and ask him to send you some sheets he has left. 



You accuse me rightly of not having sent you a set of my complete collection 

 of plants. Here, I have tobe frank. Acoording to the contract I mad with you, 

 5000 of my specimens belong to you. Up to the incident with Sir Hooker as I 

 described it above, it was also my opinion that the entire collection was at 

 your disposal. I was satisfied with this am* would even have gone to debtor's 

 prison in order to keep my word, but since I then had all the efforts and had to 

 pay the high cost of living in London, I considered this paragraph to be invalid. 

 Furthermore, Sir Hooker w owned the first collection; et I confess that you should 

 have had the second and you also would have received it if I did not need money 

 so badly in order to breathe. I offered you a collection of 100 rare plants and 



