
          Lancaster O. [Ohio] March 19. 1853


 My Dear Friend.


 I received some days
 since your welcome letter of Feby. [February] 28. and have
 neglected answering it sooner hoping to hear
 soon again from you acknowledging the receipt
 of our plants from Eagle Pass. Perhaps you
 have been saved being bored as I had intended
 in my liesure (leisure) on board the Steam Boat in our
 voyage home to give you an account of my
 adventures and hair-breadth escapes in getting
 that "queen Rutaceae" on my visit to the "Flower"
 but the steam boat jarred so that I was unable 
 to write with any comfort. And since I came
 home I am very little better off on account
 of receiving & giving visits to a long list of old
 friends &.c. [etc.] However you may not yet get off
 as well as you think as I may yet perpetrate 
 it. Especially on account of the loss of the
 flowers!!


 I have been looking more anxiously lately for a
 letter from you because Mr. Schott wrote me 
 a few days since that our package of plants
 from Eagle Pass had arrived.


 With regard to the disposition of our plants you
 will please let me know as soon as you [added: get] something
 definite from Maj [Major] Emory. 
        