
          Wms. College   Oct. 27th 1819.

Dear Sir,

I am sorry to say that your plants & minerals
are still here. They go when the vessel goes. But I am
happy to say, they start within two days, & when this reaches
you, will be in N. York. I have put up 150 plants &
a few minerals for the German botanist whose corres
pondence you advised me to accept. Perhaps the vessel
has sailed. If so, another may offer in time. A Latin
letter will accompany the box, with a note to yourself.
The address etc. you know or Rev. Mr. Schaffer will be so good
as to add. You will see what must be added to the 
letter at the beginning, after the Latin manner. For as I
know not his name, I can not finish it. I have sent
plants not [?] to Europe in any of my books. Most
of them are peculiar to this country. I have rarely given
synonyms - but given the name of the author with the 
name of the plant, from your Catalogue, the Encyclopae
dia, etc. This, I think, will be sufficient, especially as I
was obliged to be in haste. In your goodness to offer me
this & other correspondences, you make trouble for yourself,
for I must request you to attend to my box now & any
one in return. The box is directed to you. You will
open it for the letter & note, & can turn the lid for the
new name.

Today I have been out for plants. I do not get many
lichens - but several mosses, some of which I sent you
with old fruit but which are now in fine state. I shall
try to forward them soon to you. Some of the mosses too,
which have fruit early in the spring, are now showing their
little capsules, as Polytrichum polygoniatum, some of the
        