
          [?] Sept. 14, 1837


 My Dear Sir


 I rec'd. [recieved] your letter of the 2nd July
 containing the catalogue of about 100 plants which you
 wished me to to send you. On looking my herbarium
 however I find that I have no duplicates of more than 
 30 species which you have named; of those 30 species 
 I have put up a package of all the duplicates in my 
 possession in some cases not even reserving a specimen
 many more of them grow in this region & shall be able 
 to obtain & send them next season. Many of them I
 have never seen & shall probably not be able to obtain. 
 I have delayed sending this package in order to obtain 
 more duplicates of such as were not out of flower
 Shall probably send them by some Merchant going
 down after Goods & who will not be able to take
 much trouble as they generally have a multiplicity
 of their own business, you will therefore please to
 forward me your address that they may leave
 them at your dwelling or office- or designate some 
 other convenient place of deposit such as a public Hotel
 or the store of some prominent Merchant.


 The box of organic Remains you mention I sent last
 Spring had not time to accompany the Box with a Letter
 I have found it convenient since on account of a press 
 of professional business. I have not had any attention
 to the subject of O. Remains except the collection of them
 The names of a few I have accidentally picked up from
 other gentlemen. I wish you would name or procure
 them to be named with the addition of such [prof?]
 observations as may be useful in the collection of them.
 Most of the specimens were cut out with the chisel by my own 
 hands from the shelf surface of the [Secondary?] Limestone
 Rock on or near the banks of the black River

        