
          Washington, D.C.
 April 26th


 My Dr [Dear] Do. [Doctor]


 A friend of mine starting
 from here has allowed one to send
 you on a small parcel containing
 a few seeds collected. 


 One portion is a few capsules 
 from the Mescal agave not
 such I believe as they make sugar
 from but that variety which when
 the plant is young they collect the
 young leaves before the stalk is put
 out when it "in heart' like a cabbage 
 & bake it in the ashes. There is a 
 capsule [added: or seedpod] also of some yucca or agave.
 I do not know which. The pods
  of mesquite are taken from that 

        