
          Recd. Sept 23
Ansd. Oct. 9th

Quincy Fla. Septr. 10. 1835

Dear Sir,

Your letters of July & August were 
duly received, & I need not assure you how much gratified
I have bee in learning your decisions on the plants which
I sent on by the Revd. Mr. Matthews. - The fact, that I am
now able to find an outlet to my collecting, & to have all 
difficulties so satisfactorily removed, has given me fresh energy
in my Botanical Studies & will I trust prove advantageous
to you. -

I have been employed, during my leisure hours, in
collecting plants for some five or Six years, but until quite
recently, I have had no definite object in view, hence my
little Herbarium is rather ornamental than scientific; and
I have suffered many fine opportunities to pass unimproved
which, now, I sincerely regret. I resided during the year 1831
on Whitemarsh Island Ga. amidst a Paradise of  flowers,
with scarcely a sollitary collection. I had paid no attention
to the Graminaea etc. until after the receipt of your lettter to Dr. A.
& I perceive by the return that my labels in those Orders were
most sadly defective -  with more experience I hope to be
more correct.

It has been about a week since I forwarded the Box
to St. Marks, intending it shoud go out in the "Somerset"
        