
          West-Chester, Penna [Pennsylvania], March 16. 1853.

My dear Sir,

Your esteemed favor of the
9th was received yesterday. I feel under
great obligations to you for the trouble
you have taken, to procure 25 copies of
the lithograph of your new Darlingtonia,
and as many copies of the letter press to
accompany them. I hope to receive, with
them, a bill of the cost of the same, which
shall be promptly attended to. When
the copies are ready, please secure
them in a strong wrapper, or between
paste boards, and let them come, by Express,
(if no other opportunity offers) to the care
of Mr. John Penington, Bookseller, in
South 5th Street, Philada [Philadelphia]: and be sure
and let the freight, by the Express, by charged
on the parcel, to be paid by Mr. Penington.
Your kind offer to color one of the copies of
the lithograph, is exceedingly gratifying, and
demands an especial acknowledgment.
I shall have no difficulty in getting the
others colored by it; and only regret my
inability to reciprocate the favor, in
some appropriate way.

I have a correspondent in San Francisco
(Dr. H. Gibbons, the son of an old friend and
fellow student), who has some taste for
        