
          Charlestown July 24th 1834

Ansd. [Answered] Sept. 2nd

Dear Sir,

I was very happy to recieve [receive] your letter &
learn the safe arrival of my plants. I was highly gratified
by the assurance of their being no unwelcome present, as also
that the package contained some species that were before unknown
to you. I have been long persuaded that several of
them were not to be found, at least in the American Floras.
Your examination of my small collection has tested the 
sage remark of Eaton that there is not an undescribed
species east of the Mississippi. There is still a wide field
for investigation in the low country of the S. [Southern] States, as
well as in the mountains. There are several months
of the year in which it is very dangerous even for a 
native to visit the swamps and extensive marshes of
the south, and almost certainly fatal to a stranger. In
the second season of my residence at [the south I once ventured
into a rice field during the hot season, where I found the 
richest display of flowers I ever beheld. I gathered several
plants which I never met with any where else, and I doubt
not, if I could have continued my researches in such localities
through an entire season, that I should have added
very considerably to my list.

I shall visit N. [New] York in October if I go south at that time
as I now contemplate, when I will take along a portion of
my spare plants for you, if that will be in season. Or
if particularly desirable, I will endeavor to send them by
an earlier opportunity. A few of those you marked (#) I
have duplicates of, as of some other southern plants, which
are at your service. Whether I shall be able to send you
        