
          44 Sixth St. N.Y.
 7 June 1848


 My dear friend--


 You will yesterday have shared
 with me the pleasure of offering our
 personal congratulations to the Bride &
 Bridegroom. I only spent about an hour
 with them-- by appointment-- at the Astor
 House.


 The Doctor [Asa Gray?] has very kindly
 brought me in on quite a large package
 of the Kooskoosky [i.e. Kooskooskie River region] plants, which, with
 my former "annexations" will give
 me a full & fine set of them, with
 an exception here & there, it may be.


 Now, [Asa] Gray wishes me to make out
 & send him a list of these plants, as I
 understand them, & this I shall do as
 I distribute them into my Collection,
 which I purpose doing next week, life
 and health permitting. Before I begin,
 however, I should like to be furnished


 [written vertically in left hand margin:]


 Were these melancholy looking, but yet valuable specimens of Frémont
 which you sent to me, glued down, the collections of the 2nd Exped'n?
        