
          Recd. Oct. 20                     West Chester, Pa  Aug. 30.1842


        My dear Sir,


                        An opportunity offers me a very
 short notice, to return to you the Parcel of Dr. Baldwin's
 M.S. papers, which you so kindly forwarded for my 
 use, some twelve months since; & I have but a moment
 to thank you for the favor.  I have selected from
 them & transcribed, the correspondence with Dr.
 Muhlenberg - which seemed to me particularly
 interesting.  Whether what I have compiled will
 be deemed worthy of publication, - or recd. if pub:
 lished, I do not feel competent to judge.  I have
 had my compilation roughly bound in a volume,
 for conventient preservation; and have forwarded
 it for Dr. Gray to examine, I pass judgement on.
 If you have leisure & inclination to look over it,
 you may do so before sending it on to Dr. Gray
 & I should be glad if you would mark out,
 with a pencil, any portion which you think
 had better be omitted in case it should go to
 press.  Dr. G. I trust will also do the ame,
 when he received it: & I shall rest  ontent
 with whatever decision you & he shall make
 in relation to the publication of any portion
 of it.  It is even uncertain whether I shall
 find it expedient to undertake the printing, at
 all: though, if I could afford it, I would print a
 few copies, at my own cost, for distribution among
 Botanical friends.  You will oblige me by
 causing the volume to be forwarded by the earliest
 safe conveyance to Dr. Gray - who I suppose is
 now in Cambridge.  In haste,
                            yours truly,
                                Wm Darlington


 Dr. Torrey, N. York
        