
          [in pencil at top of page: Recd. in a small parcel brought to me by Mr. Thoop Oct. 6th 1840]


 I send him a few things that I have collected this  spring,
 there are many others I would like to send you but my
 health has been so bad for the last week that I have
 not been able to look through my spring's collection.
 It was my intention to send you a good package when
 my friend, Professor Cubi and Mr Thorpe go north, but
 as they leave much sooner than they expected I send
 you this, and wait for some other opportunity to send
 you a good package, which I will do soon _ I am
 waiting in breathless anxiety to see your work completed,
 it will be of great importance to us who live out of the way
 of good collection, of the book, through which the descriptions
 of many of our plants are scattered. It is now impos=
 =sible for us to know when we have a new plant without
 reference to others, and though this is a pleasant way of ob=
 =taining information, it is a tedious one _


 In one of your letters written  
        