
          to visit you, but, alas! something
has always occurred to prevent
it, and I now see no hope
of my enjoying that pleasure.

Dr. Chas [Charles] Mohr, of Mobile, Ala. [Alabama], 
the prossessor of Riddell's Herbarium, 
[crossed out: sent] apparently a nice gentleman, & 
inclined to be an active botanist, 
sent me, early last winter I think, 
a package. Having the mistaken
notion that I know something, 
he appealed to me, in divers [diverse] cases, 
to resolve his doubts. In a few
plain cases, I ventured to do so: 
But, in others, the questions must, 
of right, be submitted unto you.

I too have met with insufferable
difficulties. I recd [received] some snips from
        