
          to compare with specimens in the Academy.

I would like very much my good Sir, to know, when 
it would be convenient for you to overhaul my Mss [Manuscript]:
there are many things about the whole work that I 
want your Council [Counsel] and advice about, before I 
make a copy of the same, and if you would state 
what time next month would suit you best, any 
time shortly after that, I will come on and bring my 
work with me; 
Dr. [Doctor] Gray had sent on (by my letter to Mr Drayton in Phila [Philadelphia])
requesting that the Sandwich Island plants be forwarded to
him, and under the peculiar way that he request 
reached me I felt obliged to write to Captain Wilkes 
before sending, but I have them all ready, and only wait 
the Captains regular order to have them despatched [dispatched]; and 
I wish that the Doctor would address his request to 
Washington at once, which would greatly facilitate our 
operations.

Mr Wm. [William] Rich is expected to arrive in Washington from 
California some time towards the latter end of the present 
month; It is very likely he may bring some Botanical specimens 
with him but I think there will not be many of them; he 
may now be induced to take up his Mss: [Manuscript] and bring it 
out or at least explain it.!! Pray have you heard
        