
          how Gate's business stands, and whether you have
 heard from him since my departure.  I furnished
 him with funds enough to last him at least six
 months.  There is still a hundred dollars of the sub-
 scription unpaid. When it can be collected a remittance
 ought to be made, if Gates continues to correspond
 with us.  Green told me in Boston that he had sent
 you some money.  Nuttall took some of the circulars
 and seemed much interested in the success of the
 collection, as he wants I believe roots and seeds
 for his garden, which by the way I saw, and found
 it a very good and handsome one.  Everybody
 wants to know when your second volume will be pub-
 lished, and I told every body that you were hard
 at work upon it.  My conscience has not been quiet
 since.


     Our eastern tour extended to Portland.  If the
 weather had not been so cold and comfortless, and I
 had been furnished with an introduction, I should perhaps
 have extended my journey to Brunswick, and paid a
 visit to Cleveland.  I stopped at Amherst ten days
        