
          Charlestown Dec. 11th 1833

And Feby 4th

Dear Sir

I am highly gratified by your consent to examine my
plants, and will make up a package for you as soon as I hear from
you upon the mode of sending mode of sending it (by sea or by the mail route) and
to what address. I shall be happy in furnishing you with such plants
as I can spare from my collection and will add a few [crossed out: and] to the
package as I come across those which I think will prove acceptable.
My herbarium is not yet arranged since my return from the south and
it will be difficult for me to find time to select from the whole at
present. I have it in contemplation to publish a catalogue of plants
found in the neighborhood of Wilmington N. C. in the course of the
year, and from that you can make a selection of such species as you
desire, and where I have duplicates you shall be welcome to them. I
have no intention of pushing the publication upon the community, and
shall accomplish my present purpose only as I find that local
catalogues are really desirable. Upon this subject I am anxious to learn
your  opinion, and that you may the more readily form it I will state
that this locality is probably themost interesting botanical region
in the U.S., about a thousand species being found within two miles
of the village. And should you think it best for me to prosecute the 
plan, in what way is it best executed? In a separate volume -- or in 
some periodical, as Silliman's Journal? As to its arrangement, should
the plants be in an alphabetical list, or in the order of Natural or
Artificial classes? I am not at all anxious to fulfil my purpose of
publication for it will cost me labor which I can illy [fully?] devote to it, but
I am willing to do it if I can make it useful to Botanists. The end in
view will I think be fully answered without a scientific arrangement,
but by a simple enumeration  of the plants with some few remarks
on doubtful species.

I was fully aware of your situation in the Med. Coll. and had no wish
        