
          
 [note in pencil: 1848?]
 44 Sixth St. Tuesd'y [Tuesday] Morning
 20 June


 My dear friend--


 On Friday (9 Inst. [Instant]) I wrote you
 a few lines to say that I should send off your Carices [Carex]
 on the succeeding day-- for which I made preparation,
 but was too unwell to go down town-- in fact, upon
 the bed nearly the whole day. The next day (Sunday)
 [Asa] Gray was with me twice, & I still continued quite ill--
 but on Monday (12 inst.) I contrived to ride down
 town with your Box, which ought to have
 reached you on the same Aft'n [afternoon] by the Ft. [Freight] Train, as I myself
 left it at the Off'e [Office] & saw the man enter it upon
 his Book-- tho' [though] he gave me no voucher, in the way
 of receipt. On the top of the Box was tied a
 brown paper package, being a portion of your
 Carices which the Box itself wd. [would] not contain.


 Having now waited for more than a week to
 hear of the safe arrival of your treasures I am
 at length become so fidgetty [sic] that I resolve to
 drop you a line of inquiry, which I pray you
 to excuse, if, as I hope-- unnecessary. Our friend
 [Asa] Gray brought me on quite a batch of Kooskooskys [i.e. plants from the Kooskooskie River region]
 & these, with my former "annexations" have made
 me so fine a set that I wd. [would] not change with you. 
        