
          "Brown too was here speaking highly of Gray's beautiful
 volume"-- I have not heard from Gray since he left
 NYk [New York]. I am again troubled with irritability in the
 bowels, which, in my present weak state of health I
 find very trying. I also find this close damp weather
 rather against me-- at least, it seems so. I trust you
 are quite strong & well & beg my best respects to Mrs. T. 
 &the young ladies. 


 I am very truly yrs. [yours]
 Jno C. [John Carey]


 Can you spare me an autograph letter of
 Nicollet [Joseph Nicolas Nicollet]? I have Dr. Wislizenus [Frederick Adolf Wislizenus] from himself.


 Since I wrote the foregoing I have a letter
 from Gray, who remarks-- "By an acquaintance
 of Boott who goes out from Boston, July 12
 I have a good opportunity of sending to him"! 
 This is singularly apropos to what I have been
 writing-- so that if you are inclined to embrace
 the opportunity-- send me the plants I have indicated--
 say, to be here not later than the 9th that I
 may have time to pack them up, & send them off to Boston
 with a letter to Dr. Boott. Boott is quite delighted
 with Gray's [Gen.?] illust. [Illustrated?] & says "it may challenge a comparison
 with any work produced in Europe."
        