
          to have some correspondence with him, if you will give me his address,
 in reference to the selection & preservation of Fungi.


 I should be glad to hear from you soon in reference to matters
 above mentioned.


 I hope you have got the parcel of plants I sent you.


 I forgot to mention in my last, that your long lost
 present of Pamphlets turned up while I was preparing your packet.
 A Box from France, covered with oil-cloth which was nailed down on
 all sides, passed through [John] Wiley's hands about the time your little
 parcel was sent to him. This was inserted under the oil-cloth at the
 bottom of the Box, & nailed in again. Wiley & his men never advised
 me of the process, & could remember nothing of the packet, which
 I had for long given up as irrevocably lost. On tearing off
 this oil-cloth from the Box for the purpose of wrapping your
 plants, the parcel came to light!! I am now, though two
 years & more (I believe) since presented, to return my thanks for
 the favor. I already had Sclechtendahl's [i.e. Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal] Monograph on Aseroe,
 which I now turn over to [Henry William] Ravenel, retaining your copy for
 myself.


 I remain very respectfully
 your friend
 M.A. [Moses Ashley] Curtis
        