
          Recd [Received] Apr [April] 20
 Geneseo  April 13, 1836
 Ansd [Answered] May 7 1836

 Dear Sir,

 I wrote to you last fall on the subject of my plants
 & also to a friend in N [New] York to call on you last winter, but
 receiving no answer from you directly nor indirectly, I 
 should be almost ashamed to write again if I supposed
 that my letter had reached you or the person whom I requested
 had called. Can you furnish me with the names
 of the plants which I brought you from Key West and be 
 so good as to state what use you have made; or are going to make
 of them in your publications.

 Some specimens of cactus & agave which I left with you
 I wish to have returned to me. The bearer of this, will
 if you please, take them.

 It is now almost a year since I gave you those plants & I 
 feel a little impatient, especially at this season for botanical
 fever to hear from [them?]. May I ask when your botany
 is to be completed? And will you have the goodness to 
 mention any work which may have appeared on the 
 physiology of plants which is worthy of the subject?

 If you have any commands for any thing in the way of botany
 here on the banks of the Genesee I should be happy to endeavour
 to execute them.

 Yours,
 Alva Bennett
        