
          would have been valuable to me.


 I am very glad to find that your Flora of the Northern
 States is ready for the press. I hope it will be published rapidly as
 it will then keep alive the attention of the public.  I fear however
 it will meet with but little encouragement in this quarter of the
 world. I appear here to stand alone and to be devoting most of
 my time to pursuits in which no one participates, and no one
 even seems to take an interest. Some perseverance has been necessary
 to carry me along as far as I have gone - while however do
 all that learn to promote your work and I feel no doubt from
 the advantage you have enjoyed that it receive and merit
 great attention throughout the portion of the United States to
 which it particularly applies.


 I am gratified to learn that you propose to engage in
 an Agrostographia of North America. It is a subject in which
 I feel great interest and which I shall promote with real pleasure.
 Many of the plants you mention I think I shall be able to furnish
 Some perhaps are not with my power. Some were collected
 casually by persons ignorant of Botany. Some were discovered
 by D. Baldwin in the southern counties of Georgia where I have
 now no correspondent, and some which I collected myself
 were found in situations which I have now no opportunity of

        