
          Ansd [Answered] Jany [January] 21st 1842

Middletown Connt [Connecticut]
Jany [January] 18th 1842

My Dear Friend

Your letter of 29 Novr [November] was duly received 
and I was glad to learn you had received the packages 
of plants I sent you. Today I forward by the politeness 
of Prof Johnson, some more plants for you, and 
a set of verticillate Eupatoria. You ought to see 
my mss. [manuscript] and large specimens, or rather the 
plants growing to enter fully into this noble group of plants.
On Jany [January] 1st by Packet St James to London, I sent 
a number of sets of my Eupatoria viz to
Sir W [William] Hooker, Dr Boott, Mr Lambert, & the
Linnean Soc. [Society] together with other rare things 
of which I will tell you more another day. 
The packages care of Barrell & Mather 47 Water 
Street were forwarded, except the one [named?] from 
Mr Lapham, which I will ask Mr Johnson to call 
for.

Mr Buckley wrote me Decr [December] 18th in reply to my letter of
[illegible] I am happy to find you concur with me
as to the best course for his next years travel, which 
he intends to follow. He desired me to say 
that he had not received a copy of the paper of Dr
Gray on the plants of N. [North] Carolina, which he greatly desires 
sent but not the Flora at present, which if sent did not 
reach him. 
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