
          evening, after a very fatiguing day,
 that I have learned I am tomorrow
 to meet at Mr. Wards a gentleman
 who sails next day for New York.
 I am therefore obliged to write this in
 a hurry and to put up for you two
 or three seeds which I happen to have
 by me. Mr. Ward and I would both
 like to have a set of the plants
 from Georgia if they are still in the
 market. You do not say how many
 there are but probably not above
 500. Please therefore forward the
 sets by any convenient opportunity
 and let us know to whom we are to
 pay the amount.


 I sincerely hope that you have in no
 way been a sufferer by the very awful
 visitation which has so injured your
 beautiful city. Not knowing your 
 locality there I could not identify it
 with the published account of  the
        