
          Recd [Received] Sept. 13th
Ansd [Answered] 15th

Charlestown Sept. 8th 1834.

Dear Sir,

I am very glad that you did not omit
writing to me as it appears from your letter you had some
thoughts of doing, for I had been some time anxiously hoping
to hear from you. I thought I had expressed to you my 
wish of publishing my paper this month, as I might not
be able to attend to it for a long period to come, and was
therefor desirous that you would make returns of my species
as soon as you could conveniently attend to them.
I am glad however that you do not put yourself to any 
trouble about it, as I should be very unwilling to impose
a task upon you that would afford no pleasure to yourself.
In expectation of a complete list of my plants from 
you I had promised a paper on Wilmington plants to
the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. [Society of Natural History]; but as I cannot now finish
it, so many of them being unsettled, I shall omit a part
of them till a future day, and make out a list of such as
are known. You allude in your letter to your having
labelled some of my plants which you knew, of which
you have given me no list; I would be obliged to you
if you can furnish me with them (such as you have
satisfactorily settled) that I may add them to my
Catalogue. I will specify a few which I should particularly 
like to hear about. Arenaria diffusa? Orchis.
Asclepias  Ipomaea [Ipomoea]. Dracocephalum. Macbridea. Astragalus. 
Agrostis. Sabbatia. Sium. Triglochin. Of all these
I have doubts. There may be some of the Asters & Solidagos 
on which you can confidently pronounce, without the trouble
of a close examination, so of Eupatorium, Sonchus, Andropogon 
(a), & some more of the Cyperaceae besides what you 
have already returned. Any that you can conveniently give
        