
          Recd. [Received] May 28th
 And. [Answered] verbally


 Quincy Fla. Feb. 21. 1836


 Dear Sir,


 I have deferred an answer to your
 interesting letter of Dec. last, hoping to receive the
 package which you were about sending, & to inform 
 you of its arrival. It has not yet come to hand, and
 the Box of Plants which I promised you long ago, being 
 ready for the transportation, I conclude to write you a 
 few lines in anticipation of what I shall say in a
 further letter. I do not intend to burden you with my
 letters, except at such times as appear absolutely necessary.
 I have packed upwards of two hundred different 
 species of Southern Plants, some of which I 
 am confident, are undescribed in our Flora
 and will prove interesting to you. To these, disregarding
 the present specific names, unless they appear well chosen,
 you can substitute such as you may consider more
 applicable.


 The numbers which you find on the labels are 
 made to correspond with those on the list, which I
 placed between the loose papers on the top.


 I am quite anxious that you should particularly
 notice all the Paniceae which I have put up, and get 
 me a return as soon as your other duties will permit,
 in order that I may have them as samples early in the
 coming Spring.
        