
          I sent no specimens of Minerology from
 this region & [?] our small specimens from 
 our Cave as in answer to my Letter you 
 did not request it. If you wish for any
 specimens of either please mention it. 


 Lieut. Hopkins when he was here 2 years
 since promised to send me a box of Minerals
 from W. Point & I never rec'd. [recieved] them
 but when he left them he wrote to his friends 
 here to inform me that he had partly filled 
 a box for me that he had left it in 
 your care that you had agreed to fill
 it & forward it to me. Do you know 
 any thing about such a Box or what has
 become of Hopkins?


 If you wish your plants forwarded this fall
 you write to me immediately on the receipt 
 of this & mention the place of deposit.
 If there is any thing appertaining to Botany
 or Minerology that I can obtain for you
 in this region I shall always be happy 
 oblige you. 


 I wish I could come to N. Y. & spend a 
 few days at least with you & view some 
 Cabinets of Natural History hope I shall
 next summer- will you write soon?


 don't know whether will find you in NY. 
 or at W. P. [West Point] conclude the frmr [former] shall therefore
 direct it to that place. 


 Yours Respectfully
 I.B. Crawe


 PS That small species of Geranium have had 
 you had time to examine it? & what is it I wrote
 you that it was mature- There were a few others
 I think you did not name as you had not 
 time to examine them

        