
          I wish you would inform me, in your next
 whether the packages I sent for Dr. Gray reached
 him in safety - & whether the specimens were such
 as to answer his purposes.  I have heard nothing of them
 since they were dispatched from Philadelphia. Be so good
 as to tell Dr. E. that I duly received his Monographs of [Rhya-
 chospacea?] - for which I am much is debtor.  W.D.


 P.S.  I have filled my paper so full, I had not room to [illegible] to
 the late calamity by fire, in your city.  Not having seen your
 name among the list of sufferers, I have been led to hope
 your residence was not withing the district so awfully
 visited.  I fear, however, there may have been some losses
 similar to that you mention as having been sustained
 by the [Lyceum?], where property was destroyed of a kind not
 easily replaced.
        