
          
 C.A. Agardh

 Lund the 31 Nov [November] 1819

 Dear Sir,

 Having [answered?]  to your interesting letter by the ordinary post and 
 now having received the rich collection of plants and minerals that 
 you had sent me, I view it as my duty to give you advice [crossed out: of] thereof,
 by a new letter, and to declare to you my respectful gratitude.

 It is to me very agreeable to [?] you that [?] collections 
 are to me the most [precious?] and interesting, having in them
 almost a complete flora of New York; and it will be no [?]
 agreeable to send you back a flora of Sweden and Lapland,
 with [crossed out: ?] a fine collection of alga [algae?], that will correspond with
 the [?] you will [see?] in my synopsis, and afterward in my [?]
 [Algarium?]

 Already I have [sent?] to Gotenbourg [?] for them to [?]forward
  to your reception a packet containing my [crossed out: ?] botanical 
 letter writings. - and I am now occupied [crossed out: to] [added: in] [recollecting?] these 
 aforementioned plants

 For your mineralogical [crossed out: ?] [added: requests], being not [?] 
 mineralogist, I had given advice of them to one of our
 celebrated Naturalists and [?] of the Practical Sciences,
 His Excellency the Count of Trolle Wachtmeister Commander
 of the Polar Star, who has taken upon himself to
 enter with you in - mineralogical communications. 
 But his wife being in the moment very sick, he [crossed out: ?] waits
        