
          Buffalo, Nov. 17, 1866

My dear Sir:

I hope to be able to show
myself unto you, in New York, 
on Wednesday next, and to
find you at leisure for my
friendly persecutions.

I have resolved, this time, 
to buy paper in New York, 
wherein wherewith to set
up the herbarium of our
Society. This will require
from 4 to 6 M. [Million?] species sheets, 
to say nothing of Manilla
wrappers. I shall want 
your advice & directions as 
to where to buy. I shall
also want to [crossed out: ascert] poke
about in your herbarium,
and ascertain your mode
of cataloguing its contents, &c &c
        