
          Wms. Coll. March 29, 1825

My Dear Sir,

Your letter reached me tonight. I am
greatly obliged to thee for paying such speedy attention
to it. My requests are many, but thy power
is great, & in the [?] of thy disposition thou dost
not yield to many. You will excuse my quakerisms,
when I tell you my head has just been filled with
them by a letter from a Friend, who of course
must use them. And really I am greatly [pleased?]
with them - if thee will not come in the place
of the more correct thou.

I am glad to hear
of the prospect of money before thee - hope [Congress?]
will be liberal - for poor as I am & am to be, I
should be glad to see thee in a fat situation 
& this leads me to think how much a fat [state?]
could alter thee & change thy dimensions.

On the subject of Carices - I can only say that I
[am?] the same [fellow?]. I have not C. nigra - but I
have the fig. of schk., & the description of it so full,
that I cannot doubt - my fig. shows it well - but
they did not colour it dark as they should. I can not
prove the plant is not C. tentaculata - there is more
diff. in the form & position of the spikes than between
these two, & the fruit & [?] differ just about
as much. I have no other proof. This would be
enough in relation to the other two, if I had
never seen either; it is looking like proof in the
[latter?] case.

I meant to say that I had no doubt
your C. conoidea & titanica on [that?] in Muh. [Herb.?]
& that the latter is C. granularioides Schw. But, I
        