
          make. For myself, I think that, in your position,
 I should not hesitate an instant. Indeed, unless
 I am to starve outright, I must content myself
 with whatever may turn up, in the bread & cheese
 way, without reference to what leisure may be
 left me for Botany.  I do not, however, place the
 value of my efforts with your's, in the remotest
 degree; but the sacrifice of personal tastes &
 predilections may be, in all respects, equal. 


 I had heard something of your Sta. Fé [Santa Fé] coll'ns [collections] when
 at Boston, & should much like to see them, especially
 the Cryp'ae [Cryptogamia?] I hardly know, however, when I may
 hope for the pleasure. I should rejoice at having
 a little (closet) botany with you here, but we should
 have no comfortable opportunity. I have only
 a very small (hot) sleeping chamber, where however
 I am compelled to carry on all my operations
 which I do not care to exhibit in the parlours
 below. I sent my Carex Mss. [manuscript] to our friend Gray
 who wrote for it under date 20 ult'o [ultimo] when he was 
 printing Orchid'ae [Orchidaceae]. You have, probably later
 advices of his doings. I have arranged my
 sections & subsections of the genus, with exclusive
 reference to the species comprehended within his
 geographical range, & they would have, in many
 cases, to be modified or subdivided to admit the 
        