
          I will endeavor to make more effectual
 efforts in your behalf.

 Be pleased to retain the duplicate
 specimens of Plants, or if Lieut. Alden
 will accept of them he is most heartily
 welcome.

 Do me the favor to speak of
 me to him.

 Yours etc.
 E.S. Barrows

 The box will probably arrive
 at N. York three or four weeks hence
 it will accompany a shipment of skins
 consigned to Woodhull & Smith
        