
          Raleigh N.C. May 7th 1839


 Dear Sir,


 Your letter of last Fall
 has remained a long time unanswered
 because I wished to acknowledge the
 receipt of my Books & also give you
 a few names as Subscribers to your
 Flora. I can do nothing of either, and
 am unwilling to wait replies from
 my correspondents any longer or to delay
 answering yours. My Books have
 not arrived-- & I know not where they
 are, unless they are filed away at one
 of our Rail Road Depots, where I
 understand there is much negligence
 in the transmission of goods.


 Will you do me the favor to let me
 know how my account stands with
 you? You are to regard me as a Subscriber
 to your Flora of course, & if
 there is not money enough in your
 hands, I can pay up as occasion requires.
 Dr. J.F. McRee, [added with caret: Wilmington] will take your work, & will thank you to send the Nos. to him, as they come out. 
 The first Nos. he has not yet got.
        