
          Pray how are you progressing in 
your botanical work? have heard
that some of the No.s [numbers] are in the 
state, but have seen none.

If you have enough completed
to make one vol [volume] or even two
please have them bound &
sent to the Counting house of
Leroy M. Wiley & Co. where the
bearer of this Mr Hill [crossed out: can]
will find it. I shall instruct 
him to pay & if he [neither ?] [run?]
you or your agt [agent?] to leave the
money with Mr. Wiley.

Please let me hear from you
by mail. It is always a pleasure
to hear from you.

A professor of botany [Lucian LaTaste] in our Methodist
female College at Macon Gea [Georgia]
has published a manual of Gea [Georgia]
& southern plants, -
        