
          I have not seen L.C. His [crossed out: illegible] wife has lately given him a young
 naturalist and he is studying the book written on the management 
 of children, and it would not be the best time to speak
 to him on the mangtt [management] of Herba [Herbaria]. I will tell Halsey what you
 say. He likes our plan and does not insist upon his [illegible]
 stuff.


     Dr. [Griscom?] would not give me any [lead?] to the [Lin. 2?]
 told me when I could get it.  I have got a capital fountain
 playing in my bed room from which I expect to derive the
 greatest benefit.  I am however far from well and until I get
 much better than I am, I suspect that for me there will be "no
 place like home". I however reflect with pleasure upon my
 journey to the [illegible], if it were only for the [brush?] you gave me
 of the fountain.


 Below you have Brown App. Do, do and
 no copy. D.K. frets "like a bear with head sore" and the press
 waits.  My best wishes to Mrs. T. [Torrey] Tell her I do not intend
 she shall play at hide & seek within my [illegible], I will catch
 her at home at last.


 Yours Wm Cooper


 Brown in Supp. to App. of Capt. Parry's First Voy. Lon. 1824 [A supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage in the years 1819-20 containing an account of the subjects of natural history. London 1824]
 p. clxxxiii. Carex misandra, spicis (4-6) pedunculatis ovalibus 
 penduilis: terminali basi mascula; reliquis femineis, fructibus 
 lanceolatis acuminatis bidentatis margine denticulatis squama
 ovali longioribus, stigmatibus 2-3. 
 Desc. (exemplarium quatuor incompletorum cum spicis fructiferis 
 et portione cudmi, in herbario D. Ross.) Folium supremum breve, 
 lineare, marginibus longitudinaliter denticulatis. Spica v. 
        