
          My friend Doct. Baldwin

Yours of the 6th to Doct. Cutter was this Day rec'd [received]
& affords me pleasure to hear of your being likely (according to News Paper 
accounts) to have some opportunity of collecting some rare specimens 
from South America. As you are not at liberty to state where the 
ship is bound you can if proper say when you expect to return to 
the U. S. [United States]. Altho [Although] I have nothing to relate very interesting to 
you yet I could not well pass over the opportunity of saying at least 
that you have my most hearty wishes for an agreeable cruise & happy 
return. You mentioned in your last to me that you had seen 
an act account of the Deaths in Savannah sent to my Brother [J.?], this statement 
I believe came down no farther than the 15th of Sept. [September] by the last of 
that month there was fifty nine [added: Deaths] in Oct. [October] the extraordinary number of 
one hundred & twenty nine, up to the evening of the 15th of the 
present month there was thirty nine what has been the number 
since that time I cannot say but presume about eight or ten 
the weather for these three Days (now almost past) [crossed out: illegible] has become 
quite cold that is according to my feelings & fine & cool according to 
others they have been the only mornings that frost has been seen 
& for the comfort of my self I should wish that it should never be 
seen again where I am. My family that is Madam & Edwin has 
both been sick this Summer & Fall, Edwin to accompany Adaline 
went up to the country [added: last of June] from unaccustomed exposure to Raine [Rain] & Sun 
he became sick & continued so most of the time until Sept. [September] 
he then took to the Country again visited [Tulsa?] falls & the 
Currahe Mountains from which places he brought some few specimens 
for you how [crossed out: to] dispose of them & of others I do not know unless it 
should be by sending them to Mr. Frazer but if this should
        