
          you to let me know it wherever I may be. I am
 young and single (without the ?) and possess the
 capability of bearing fatigue and the ardour for
 discovery in sufficient degree to satisfy even Mr. [Schoeling?].


 I have often thought about starting off for the interminable
 west pretty much in the manner that you
 describe Drummond to have done, but have always
 been deterred by the fear of sinking more money by the
 experiment than my poverty can afford. Can you
 give me any advice upon the subject? Would it
 require a large sum for an outfit and could I
 reasonably calculate upon being paid for my labor
 by the sale of any thing I could secure during
 my wanderings?  From such inclinations you can
 judge somewhat how exultingly I [covered?] over your 
 letter and how despondingly alas! I perused
 the postscript.


 Have seen nothing yet this
 Spring, peculiarly interesting in Botany though hope
 in the course of the two months that I spend here
 teaching the science, to find something besides
 the "omnibus locis" weeds that one meets with
 everywhere. I am very much in want of
        