
                                                               West Chester, Penn  April 25, 1827


 Dear Sir,


                 Your favor of the 2nd was duly received and
 I feel under much obligation for your kindness in returning
 my package with you remarks.  I have written to Mr. Cooper,
 agreeably to your direction, requesting him to forward the
 package to Philadelphia and hope I shall receive it.
 The specimens which you have added, from the northern
 states, will be extremely gratifying especially from the
 circumstances of the names being sanctioned by your
 authority.  I am very anxious to [possess?] specimens
 of American plants, which do not grow in this region,
 and am mking arrangements to correspond with 
 gentlemen in different parts of our county, with
 a view to exhanges.  I shall be happy to furnish
 any thing we have, here, for plants which are pec-
 uliar to other districts.  I shall not neglect the
 list which you sent me last fall: indeed, I have
 already commenced collecting - and shall endeavor
 to have specimens of every plant named in it,
 during the season.  I am about to withdraw from
 my engagements,  as a [Canal Co.....?], and
 attend to my own business, which has suffered
 materially by my abscence from home during the
 two years past.  I hope I shall be able, this sum-
 mer, to devote more attention to botanical studies,
 and collections, whilst pursuing my practice:
 and I find more real gratification in those studies
 than in any thing else.  I can readily appreciate
 the pleasure you must have enjoyed in your interview
 with Mr. Schwinitz; and should have been most happy
 to have participated in the delights of such a meeting.
        