
          West-Chester, Pa [Pennsylvania],
Decem. [December] 8. 1851.

My dear Sir,

A few weeks since, I
sent to New York a copy of the Bartram
& Marshall Memorials, for you, by a gentleman 
then going to that city; and as I
did not know your precise address, I
told the gentleman to leave the parcel
at the hotel, if you did not call for
it while he was there. At the same time,
I sent [added: you] a notice of the circumstance, directed
simply to New York; for the reason that I
did not know your street & number. As I
have not had the pleasure of hearing
from you, since, I am induced to trouble
you (if I shall have the luck to make this reach
you), in order to ascertain whether the
parcel has come to your hands. The
gentleman tells me, he left it at the
"Mansion House, Chambers Street,
near Broadway." If you have it, then
all is right. If not, I wish you would 
call, or send for it, as it was directed
to be kept until called for.

I wrote to you, that I had fallen
among thieves, at our State Fair, & had
lost my pocket book, with your letter
(among others) containing those pretty 
specimens
        