
          Rocky Comfort (near Quincy) March 15, 1841
[in another habd] Rec'd Apr
9! 1841   and [answered] May 29

My dear Sirs

I received your letter of the 20th ult.
yesterday, & am rejoiced to learn that the 2d Vol. is
in progress.  When completed it will be a work to
which every American will point with exultation.
I did not get the sample sheet to which you refer & 
it will probably come next mail.

About the first of this month I started off my 
annual offering to my Botanical friends via Apalach.
There are two packages which go to New York one
Box with a small bundle on the top for yourselves
and a larger one at the bottom for Boissier
the other  a package in boards for Dr. Short to your
care -- I do not like to trouble you with the care 
of these packages & I hope soon to engage the
services of Mr. Bettner in such matters

I have to apologise for my tardiness this year &
for the wee bit of a bundle I send you -- I have 
pretty thoroughly explored this region as far as the
settlements extend & I cannot with safety venture 
beyond them.  You will find I trust one or two plants
which will interest you   That little Aspidium I think
the prettiest of the genus -- This past winter I have studied
the Jungermannia & the mosses & have sent you [?suites?sets?]
numbered -- I desire your opinion of them, & I further
wish to obtain a set of the common kinds if you
have them to spare

[In the opposite direction]
I learned today (20) that the Apa river is remarkably high & the Warehouse
to which the boxes were sent [illeg crossed out word] almost under water!
        