
          Recd.[recieved] April 24th

Florida, April 4th. 1937

My Dear Sir,

In my last letter from New Bern, I informed
you of my purpose of making a hasty visit to my 
plantation. I arrived here a few days ago, and, finding
my affairs in a good train. I shall remain here
only two or three days longer. I return by the way of
Quincey- where Chapman has agreed to join me on 
a visit to the Appalachicola River, the habitat
of the Torreya and the Croomia! But it is yet too
early I fear to obtain the fruit of either. If I find
it so I will probably run down in a steam boat
to the Town of Appalachicola , & on my return there 
look again for these fruits. I will at least send you
a better specimen of the trunk of the Torreya there
that sent in my last box.

Since my last letter I have looked over a copy of Bartram
& I find he does indeed mention the Orange of E. Florida
in the most marked and oft-repeated passages. Thus
at page 190 (Dublin edition 1793) he speaks of "extensive
forests consisting of Orange groves, overtopped
with grand magnolias, palms, poplar, tilia, live oaks, etc."
In the Table of Contents, Part II. Chap VIII. is the following-
"unpardonable devastation and neglect of the white settlers
with respect to the native orange groves," & in the passage
referred to p. 251. he says: "I have often been affected
with extreme regret at beholding the destruction and devastation 
which has been commited on those extensive fruitfull 
orange groves on the Banks of the Juan, by the new planters
under the British government, some hundred acres of which
        