
          Recd [Received] Sept. [September] 10th
 Ansd [Answered] " [September] 11th


 High honourest Sir


 I begg [beg] beforehand for Your Kind pardon
 and clemency, when I have taken the liberty
 to trouble You with this my devoted letter,
 especially belonging my yet imperfect expression
 in Your beautiful language, for I am a beginner
 a German.


 Newly I have communicated to the rev [Reverend]
 Professor Dr. A. [Asa] Gray, Esq., Harvard University,
 in Cambridge near Boston, a letter with a 
 recomandation [recommendation] from my benevolent and scientific
 friend Dr. Reichenbach in Germany, on account
 of botanical objects, whereby I explained him my
 present trouble and that I must be fixed here
 under the mournfullest circumstances.


 He assured me in a letter his generous
 protection and next to adviced [advised] me, to make
 You acquainted with my present misfortune
 and to take Your kind advices and aid, for You
 were his excellent friend.

        