
          Middletown Feb 5th 1834.


 My Dear Friend


 I received a pamphlet from you some time
 since this being the only communication from you that has
 come to hand since I left your hospitable mansion.


 For some time past I have been intending daily to write and
 having several memoranda before me I will take them
 up in the order they occur.


 1st Did you read that interesting account of the life and correspondence
 of Linnaeus Edinb Rev [Edinburgh Review] no CXV p 39?  The account of the
 Ruins of Palenque I named having read of this was in the
 evening post October 17 1833 no 9722. the same article I
 was informed appeared shortly afterwards in the Albion. this
 article I preserved and should you desire to see it I will
 hand it over to you when I next visit you.


 On my return from NY [New York] I went to work actively on the Willows
 and made some further discoveries. These I will not now
 trouble with it being my intention when you get through
 your course of Chemistry  to visit NY [New York] and bring your Willows
 &c with me. I am desirous to know if your Books &c
 you were expecting from Paris have arrived and I am further
 desirous to be informed of the notes made by you in Paris
 in examining the Herbarium of Michaux will throw any light
 on the Willows there being but five described by Michaux.
 If I could once see these specimens I could tell in a moment
 all about them. [indeed?] I imagine shall be able to impart
 something new respecting them. 

        