
          Wms. [Williams] College July 8th 1822

Dear Sir,

I was very glad to get your letter of June 13th, because
you had not written me for many weeks, & I did not know
that my box had reached you, for your previous letter was
sent before the box left me. You had not told me before now
that Mr. Nuttall had tried for a class. I wonder he did
not succeed. I had hoped before now to get a letter on
the plants & bugs sent you, but I must wait. I know
indeed you must have trouble enough with so many little
[crypts? [cryptogams?]]. I give you all credit for what you effect. In the 
box now putting up for you will be plants, numbered &
in future boxes the numbering will be continued. I will number 
without regard to phenog. [phanenogram] or crypt. [cryptogam] plants & without
reference to the orders too, for I am often obliged to 
put up plants with such interruptions, that I know not 
how to number the mosses by themselves, & so of the lichens,
because I can put up but a few at a time, & often get 
new ones often I have begun numbering. I have however
get the numbers of plants out this spring & last
autumn. Do you know whether the plants sent to 
Prince live and flourish?

You say I am candid on your view of the Panics,
&, I thought I had always been candid. I meant to be at
[most?]. Lecidea petrophila, do you not mean L. lithophila [Lecidea lithophila]?

I do not think Webster will oppose your admission
into the Lin. Soc. [Linnean Society]. I have many difft. [different] views of him from
some others. I did suppose he ought to be well thought 
of. He is a very pleasant man, & his works show
him to be scientific. but the Soc. [Society] may consider me
        