
          1846?


 Monday Aftn [Afternoon]
 Greenwich St.


 My dear friend,


 Upon going up to the College [College of Physicians and Surgeons]
 I learned from Mr. Holton [Isaac Holton] that you 
 had gone home, & your course of
 lectures had terminated! He said,
 however, that you would be in town
 on Wedy [Wednesday] night, or Thursday morning.
 I therefore write to ask if, amongst
 the Fremont [John Charles Frémont] plants, there are any
 bits of Artemesia to spare? If so,
 please let me have them, for Charity.
 I have been trying, in vain, to make
 something out of them. Even, when
 I had Nuttall's spec'ns [specimens] I did not well
 understand them; & now that I am
 almost bare of exemplars, the
 genus is a sealed book to me, not
 withstanding the light one ought to
 derive from the Book. I shall call
 at the Coll. [College] on Thurs'y [Thursday] Morning as I


 [in left margin]:
 If you do not propose to visit N.Y. this week, drop me a line by return
 mail, that I may know when to look after you at the College.
        