
          Recd. Nov. 2nd
Ansd. Nov 14th.

New Bern October 17th 1836

My Dear Sir

We arrived here in safety nearly two weeks after
and I have since been much engaged in making preparations
for my departure South, I am about to break up my establishment
here, and to transfer my family further South. 
I do not propose to settle them in Florida, but probably
in Charleston, where I can more conveniently visit my
plantation in winter, and where I shall enjoy a more
cultivated society and greater literary means than I 
can elsewhere find at the South. If I shall find the
climate oppressive during summer I can easily transfer
myself and family to the North for two or three months
in each year or two. Here too I can have my children
with me and the means of educating them at home, which 
you will allow, is no small consideration. I am [added: now] really 
unhappy on accord of their absence from us.

Should the Indian troubles in East Florida be terminated
this winter I will visit that region next spring, 
where, doubtless, I shall find many things to interest you
and me. I will then endeavour to procure flowering
specimens of the native orange of that region, which, 
strange to say, has not yet found a place in our Flora.

George Wilson, Esq of this place has, during the last
two or three years been cultivating an acquaintance
with botany, especially our native Flora. I urged 
him to make collections this summer, and he has 
done so to some extent. His collections have been
made in  a part of this neighborhood which I 
never visited, and he has obtained several plants
        