
          Middletown Sept. 16th 1833.


 My Dear Friend,


 I was extremely gratified to hear from you this 
 morning dated  Aug 29th with a postmark Sept 14th. I am now so far 
 improved in my health as to resume my active habits 
 and feel as if I must try to visit you the latter part of  
 this week. The information you give me of having forwarded 
 the bundle of Willows by the Schooner Emily delights me not a 
 little, the package is in careful hands though it has not 
 arrived here yet. I am well prepared for undertaking the 
 arrangement of the Willows at this time from your former
 collections which I have studied attentively & with the sources 
 within my reach I shall be able to get along rapidly. 
 Fortunately there is a spacious empty store just under my office 
 with a large counter shelves &c this I have occupied 
 several weeks for my plants and here I shall get along 
 admirably with the forthcoming Bundle.


 Since I wrote you last have found a locality but 3 miles from 
 this City with abundance of Salix tristis!! and Muhlenbergiana! 
 of these I have not yet seen the flowers! So I shall be sure 
 of them next spring having [added: secured] a full supply of fine specimens 
 with leaves. I find the Liatris squarrosa and 
 abundance of Monotropa lanuginosa which by the way 
 is a very variable plant. I have also 2 fine specimens 
 (dried now) of a Monotropa of an orange red with yellow

        