
          Middletown Connt [Connecticut]
 Aug 4 1841


 My Dear Friend,


 It is a long time since
 I have heard from you I suppose you
 have been busy with your State
 Flora and have had every moment 
 of your time taken up


 I have been working hard again 
 at the Carices and have finished
 a supplement that is ready
 for the press and that I shall
 soon print, when I shall
 send you the sheets and
 a set of specimens.


 Your Plants are ready to your 
 order, and but for the 
 press of other matters
 they would have been 
 sent by Mr Bigelow
 this day.

        