
          Recd [Received] Feby [February] 3rd
 Ansd [Answered] in letter to Dr. [Doctor] Gibbs

 Charleston Jany [January] 25th 1840

 My dear sir

 By the ship Sultan Capt [Captain] Barkman &
 I have shipped a box  directed to you. It contains
 all the plants which we could find
 in Elliott agreeable to your list. Dr. Gibbs aided
 me & indeed did nearly all the work as I was
 unfortunately unable to stoop much. We have
 added a few not mentioned by you that 
 we thought might be interesting to you. I 
 found several you wrote for, not in the 
 herbarium, but if you desire such as are 
 in our herbarium we will very cheerfully
 send these.

 Thus far I am much pleased with
 your work, but we are hungry & may lose
 our appetites if the [?] is waiting too long.
 I am glad to hear of Mr. Gray's return. I
 expect he has faced as I did that to study the nat.
 hist. [natural history] of our own country we must go to Europe.
 Is not this a shame? But we are waking up.
 We expect you & Gray to set us all right in [Botany?].
 Aud. [Audubon] is publishing his birds in small size - it can
 only be useful in this way & is receiving a fair
 support. Holbrook has completed his 4th vol. [volume] on
 the reptiles - [our?] [affairs?] will complete that excellent
 work.  I have [visited?] [with?] Audubon

  
        