
          You may recollect that about two years ago, I obtained
from you the 8th part of Hooker's Flora Boreali-Americana
and you thought it probable you might be able to procure
the succeeding parts for me. My object now is to say to
you, that if you have not received them, or have not
taken any certain steps to procure them, I believe
I can get them through Mr. Dobson, without further
troubling you on the subject. There are some dealings
between Mr. Dobson & myself, which will render
it quite as convenient for me to receive them
in that way, as in any other. You will therefore
oblige me, by informing me whether any of the 
numbers have been ordered on my account. If not,
as soon as I learn the fact, I will order them
through Mr. Dobson.

I shall be glad, also, to learn whether you 
have yet had an opportunity to forward to
Paris, a package of pamphlets, which I left
at Messrs Carvills last June, directed to Dr. Martins,
and which you kindly offered to send, when you
next made up a parcel for France.

If, when you write me, you have leisure to go beyond
the information above desired, I shall be happy
to learn any botanical news which Dr. Gray may
have brought, and especially the prospects in
relation to the residue of the N.A. [North American] Flora.  If you
can possibly give us the remaining numbers,
with the advantages you now possess, in tolerably
rapid succession, I think it will be advantageous 
to the interests of the work, as well
as be gratifiying in the highest degree to all
rthe cultivators of botany in our country.
        