
          Recd. [Received] Aug. 31st 1857

Lancaster O. [Ohio] Aug. 15th 1857

My Dear Friend.

Your letter of 8th Aug. 
was with pleasure received two days
ago. Some 10 or 12 days ago I
addressed a note to Mr. Seaman
Superintendent of Pub. [Public] Printing to know
something about the plates of Capt [Captain]
Whipples botany. Yours as well as 
the Cactaceae. I was in hopes of receiving
an answer before I replied to you.
I have 200 copies [added: such as I sent you] of [added: letter press of] Whipples botany
of which I can furnish as many as
you & Dr. Gray may want. Your
wecome letter of July 28th was also duly 
received. As soon as I hear from Mr.
Seaman I will let you know the
result. Mr. Sullivant will publish the
mosses of our expedition in the transactions
of the Acad. [Academy] of Arts & Sciences Boston. If I
can get them soon enough I will have a
few bound up with the volume as they
        