
          Wms. Coll. Feb. 22nd 1821,

Dear Sir,

The day after the receipt of your letter,
I answer it, as you requested. Yet as I wrote you
last week, I fear you will think me as much too
attentive as before too neglectful. Yet that I may have
the start of you in correspondence, I have resolved to
write you. I felt much obliged by your letter, & wish
I could interest you as much in return.

The plants from Sprengel came [?]  but Mrs.
[Bradstoul?] did not appear. As I paid their transporta
tion from Albany, I presume she came only to
that place. I have some curiosity to know what my
Johnson is about. I hear nothing about him but
from you. I can not concieve what he can be about, or
how he supports himself. A letter came in the bundle
from Mrs. B. to one of his friends & I suspect it
told what he is about - but I hear nothing about it.

Sprengel wrote me the ship was cast away 
& he recd. the box rather late. But he says, he was
gratified with it, & urges me to send him more, & of
fers to send me in return. And if you know of a
[?] going this spring, I would send him again
some plants. You will be so good as to inform me.
I can hardly find out a part of his letter but if I do
understand it, he calls some of the plants differently, &
yet doubts whether he is right, & also doubts whether
my names are right for some he does not change. Of
the Carices, he doubts those, you have lately  
        