
          [note in pencil:  [Sept. 23, 1849?]]


 New York
 Saturday-


 My dear friend,
 I have nothing to say to you, 
 except that I have received from [Henry Parker] Sartwell
 for you, the first part of his Carices [Carex], comprising
 some 70 sp. [species] & vars. [varieties] very nicely
 put up. I shall keep them, with your
 other plants, as you are so shortly coming
 to the City-- for good, I truly hope-- I have 
 also received from our friend [Francis] Boott the
 U.S. Expl'g [Exploring] Carices, which you took to Boston.
 He wants to see the "St. Pablo" which must
 needs be amongst the ["Extensae"?] or "Flavae"
 If you are removing to the City this winter
 I will look it out-- if not-- take another peep
 before quitting Princeton-- for the Winter. I
 see that Prof. Loomis [possibly Elias Loomis] is appointed to the chair
 of Nat. Philos. [Natural Philosophy] How is this? Do you confine 
 your lectures at Princeton to Chemistry?
        