
          Cambridge. 19 March 1847.


 My dear Doctor,


 I arrived here safely yesterday morng.
 & found our good friend well as so busy & hard-working
 a man can expect to be. As he is writing Botany, I 
 take up the (gold!) pen as his private Secretary, & in
 respect of what follows, -- loquitur A.Gr. [Asa Gray]--


 Your two letters of 13/16 are received, & of the list
 of plants marked off as sent to me, I find I have only
 Anamerta?-- Schizandra -- & Croomia -- but as the
 remainder of the list have not reached me is it not
 probable that you laid them aside with the intention
 of forwarding [crossed out: to] them to me. Please look around once
 more, as Sprague is waiting for the Selenia, especially.
 Good Cleome integrifol. [integrifolia] may accompany C. serrulata.
 My first vol. will leave off on this side of [Caryophyll?]
 probably will include Elatinaceae. I would not be
 in haste as to a new Fremontia. Wait & see what
 the 3d Coll'n [collection] may contain. There may be some very
 handsome or interesting genus. As to the Smithsonian
 papers, there w'd [would] seem to be a great propriety in
 publishing the new Fremontians at Washington.
 Have them nicely drawn, & good depictions, but
 there is no need of colouring, if they are well done.
 The sheets of your Flora (vol. 2) arrived last night.
 I sent you by mail to-day some sheets of my new
 book. The writer misunderstood my intention, & did
 not forward them to you, as I designed to intimate
 to him, by writing your name in pencil on the sheets.
        