Ree. April 2 

 Ans. 11 25 



Leipzig March 8, 1863 



Dear Friend 



I only postnoned answering your kind letter, which I reoeived 

 by way of Berliny . until I could. annoupe the shipment of the desired 



paper-cover of Schnitzlet, 2 Yellow Books of De Capelle 1 s Prodro - 

 mus, the writing of Koper^ick, a^d a package of fern spores, and 

 hope that all will get to you in ,^ood shane. To be safe I inquired 

 fron Dr. Flügel, if the nisfortune, which hit the Smithonian Insti- 

 tute would not have a deleterious effect on such . shipnents, he 

 thought not, and. thus I gave hin the packet.- Kuhn 1 s Diseases of 

 Plants is a valuable publication I shall ' persue at the firsti 

 opportunity. The invoices of this and prior shipmets I have all pre- 

 served, not to keep then fron your inspection, but be cause I be - 

 lieve, that und er present conditions it is better to keep such pa- 

 pers to avoid er^ors in case the not always nasterful handling of 

 bills by the gentlemfen bookdealers nay lead to dunlioations, rather 

 then expose von. to the da^ers of fraud (? E. D. ) • After paying for 

 all, includinsr the above-nentioned books, I still have 28§ Srt of 

 yours in. cash.- 



I enclose my photop-raph with the request,that you let us 

 have yours in your next letteijin .duplicate, one for me (? E.D«) f1 

 Pastor Howard thinks often of you; we lived a long time next to 

 each other without ha Ving explored the aquaintance of yon^r; late- 

 ly that has changedr; ard there is often nention of vou: I hope, you 

 will fulfill our wish 1 , if 1 may m n a t the same tine a study by 

 Mr. Lithographer. . To A . Guy I shall m.u,;;j>'l-^-HUv se^d my mc- 



books, Bay ;bef ore yesterday I handed over to Dr. Flegel the missing 



ture. 



