
          December 20' 1883


 My Dear Doctor


 I have stolen from the
 printer at risk of incurring his
 high displeasure the proof of most
 of your Plantae [Margarrde?] which 
 I now send. Return it to me by
 the mail leaving NYork Wednesday
 afternoon and send by letter
 mail, as I do, not pamphlet.
    I have received your corrected
 sheets of Sitgreaves and do not think
 you do either myself or the
 printer full justice in this matter,
 of remarks thereon in your letter.
 I enclose a table which I have
 just prepared showing the present
 condition of the text as printed,
 the way in which it reads in 
 the [mss/message?] and the changes
 you have made of the printed 
 text in your review. You may depend
 upon the accuracy of the tables, 
 and I doubt not you will be surprised
 to see how many of the 
 errors of omission and of commissions
 of punctuation etc are your own. I 
 corrected myself all the misspellings 
 of the text as printed with 
 few exceptions but as I could rarely
        