
          West Point
 July 10th 1821


 Dear Sir


 I regretted much that I did not have an
 opportunity of seeing you when in N [New] York, and should
 not have left without doing so had I not been
 limited in time. Expecting however that you would
 call at N. Griffith I left [crossed out: you] the plants in [?]
 [?] to be delivered to you and it must have
 been accidental that they were not put in your
 hands at the time of your first call. I should 
 have written on the subject long since had it not 
 been for the work pressing official engagement,
 added to a state of illness in my family.


 Yours of the 6th came to hand yesterday and
 I hasten to reply to it. My views for publishing
 [crossed out: ?] the scientific results of the expedition to [crossed out: ?]
 embrace a chapter on the vegetable productions of 
 [crossed out: ?] N. [north] West and I have for this purpose provided
 myself with notes on [?] forest growth in all the
 district this which we passed, by incorporating new
 notes with the [more?] scientific notices which you
 shall give of the collection; and embracing at the same time

        