
          Friday Evening


 Your kind letter, my dear Doctor,
 which reached me this morning, has
 relieved me from some little fidges
 on the score of the safety of yr. [your] carices.
 Tho' it always affords me such
 pleasure to hear from you, yet I
 wd. [would] not have given you the trouble
 to write to me on purpose to acknowledge
 receipt of the box, had I
 felt perfectly easy respecting it.


 I avail myself of Mr. Grant's [possibly Seth Hastings Grant?]
 visit to hand over a copy of [Francis] Boott's
 paper, which [added with caret: it] appears you have not
 & which you certainly need-- as it
 describes 51 species! I am quite
 pleased that I happen to have a duplicate
 of it. I have no Dupl. [duplicate] of
 the short paper on C. Grahami [Carex grahamii]
 but you can have mine whenever 
        