
          Wed'y [Wednesday] Morning 17 Mar./47 [1847]


 My dear friend,


 Your kind & welcome letter reached me
 yesterday, but the wafer proving unfaithful to its' [its] trust
 permitted the fruit of the [Haben'a?] to be destroyed. However
 you will probably see Mr. Holton's plant before I shall, as
 a further kind invitation from our mutual friend, has
 determined me to make him a visit, & to assist him, in
 "doing" the Carices [Carex] & Salices [Salix]. I leave by the Boat this aft'n [afternoon].
 I had been, for some time past, very uncomfortable in my late
 Chambers, & on Friday, a sudden annoyance induced me to
 give them up, on the Instant, & I bestowed myself & goods
 at Brother Sam's [Samuel Thomas Carey], from whence I am now writing. I shall,
 hereafter, have to seek fresh quarters, & possibly, prior to
 doing so, I may indulge myself with a day or two's run
 to Princeton, as you so very kindly propose. Since you appeared
 disposed to make a revisio Caricum, it will be a good opportunity;
 as I shall be fresh from the investigation of them.
 I should however be better pleased to learn that you had
 sold your house, & were "in the transition state." The two
 bundles of plants which I named for Knieskern [Peter D. Knieskern], he himself
 packed up in the Box he forwarded to Dr. Gray, for Mr. Lowell.
 Give yourself no trouble about the Fremont [John Charles Frémont] plants, but
 should leisure & inclination concur at any time to examine
 them, I shall rejoice over the "pickings." As I undertand the
 new P.O. [Post Office] law, I can no longer send you the sheets of "Bot. N. U.S."
 but I have only 3, some appearing to have missed their way. 
 Your clergyman must needs be a handsome fellow, assuming the 
 correctness of your eye, as to our personal resemblence; & if, moreover,
 "almost as good" as I am, why I can only wish his Diocesan had many
 such!! Very kind respects to Mrs. T. & the young ladies, & to yourself much regard, 
 from Jno Carey
        