
          And 
May 1834

Wednesday [Eve?]

My Dear Sir,

I send for that package of plants,
I shall put [added: it.] into my [trunk?], so that it will go
safely, & return it to you when I come down.
Send me the whole [mess?], & what descriptions I have
not, of the new species, [?].

Suffer me to say to you, that I think you had
better complete your 2nd vol., even if you do
not add all the Crypts., & then add an appendix
[?] all the other N. Am. plants. You
will get far more honor by that method than
by the one you propose, as I think, & so thinks
Prof. [Averill?].

As you lecture here on Botany, I hope
you will collect flowers & show the Lin.
Classes & Orders [as/on?] the living specimens.
You will find this far more interesting [than?]
your [colls?], & tubes, & spirals, & all the minute
physiology of plants. You know all this well,
& will lecture well on it; but it [needs?] [half?] of your
knowledge to appreciate the matter, & you can not
[make?] a mixed class have any interest. At least, so I
have ever found it, & in College too, & in the Med.
Class too. Your excursions will not [?], for they
[need?] to analyze to improve by excursions. I shall
leave a [puff?] for one of your papers to [raise?] the
wind for you.

Now, my Dear Sir, I missed your help for myself,
will you not give me your influence for my school.
If you know of boys, do let me know when I return.

Your friend

C. Dewey
        