
          Charlestown (Mass.) Sept. 1st. '51.


 My Dear Sir,


 I have been a wanderer from home since
 the last week in May, in search of health. I am now quite
 well again, & intend being in N. York a few days about
 the middle of the month. It would give me pleasure to see
 you, if you should be in the city at the time, & could
 spare a little leisure upon me. WIll you leave a line
 for me at Putnam's, stating when & where I may call upon
 you in the city, if it should be agreeable to you to waste
 a spare hour with me?


 I have not yet been over to Cambridge, not knowing if
 Prof. [added: Gray] has yet returned. I hope to see him before I leave.


 I have two or three weeks to spend in Phila., after leaving
 N.Y. where I wish to overhaul Herb. Schwein. [Louis David Schweinitz's Herbarium]


 As I hope to see you, I am now in haste, I will
 detain you no farther than to subscribe myself


 your obliged friend


 & servt [servant]


 M.A. [Moses Ashley] Curtis.
        