
          Rec. [Received] April 29.
 Ansd. [Answered] " [April] 30


 Lancaster Ohio Apl. [April] 22nd. 1853.


 My Dear Friend:


 I arrived safely at Columbus
 in 34 hours from New York but behold after arriving
 within 28 miles of my home it cost me 61 hours to 
 get here. I arrived at Columbus at 3 o'clock
 A.M. on Saturday but every seat in the coach for
 my town was taken. Our mail is daily only
 throught the week--Sunday having none--so I
 had to wait until Monday. One of our doctors
 (are we not an enterprising set of fellows) has combined
 staging with the legitimate commerce of the pill boys
 and monopolized every mode of conveyance excepting
 private so that you are altogether at his mercy
 and can only go at the convenience of his will!
 If being under the subjection of any monopoly is
 odious it is that of the stager especially when you
 are in a hurry to get home.


 In looking over Plant: [Plantae]
 Wright: [Wrightianae] Part 2nd I find upwards of 60 items where
 plants were gathered while we were together.
 It is altogether probable I missed getting some
 of them but a reference to my Copper mine plants
 will show whether I missed them all or not.
 The following from peculiar circumstances I 
 recollect well having gathered before Mr. W. [Wright]
 came to the Copper mines. Hosackia Wrightii


 [Added in the margin, appears he wanted to cross it out: If the enclosed paper of Begnoniaceae [Begoniaceae] seeds are]
        