
          I need not tell you that any suggestion from you in reference
 to my work would be most gratefully [added: received] in reference to
 matter or arrangement. I should be glad, by my own labours,
 and the aid of others, to make it worthy to be one of the stepping 
 stones to the Temple your [you] are building. I have no other
 object than the advancement of the Science of Botany in our
 Institutions of learning where it is now in a disgracefully
 low state. I know [added: a] professor [crossed out: s] who have [has] never studied or taught
 any other book then Mr. Linean's Botany, and that too in
 Georgia, and not one tenth of the plants growing in his neighbourhood
 of course can be known to him,


 Yrs. [Yours] Mst. [Most]  Respectfully, J. [John] Darby


 Please change Box no. 28
 To/ 25
 Messrs. Torrey & Gray 
 New York City


 [in pencil]
 B. F. Shaw
 18 South St.


 [in pencil, upside down to letter: various numbers and scribbling]

        