
          you wrote me for a great supply of Pinguicula,
&  you return for the specimens,
the "hope that some specimens may be left for
our successors may not doubt the locality."
I would the [supernumeronies?] were even growing
on the walls of the Genesee. Glad I
am that some grow too high to be reached
without a ladder.

To Dr. Gray I am greatly obliged for
C. Fraseri. But I wish to be obliged once
more; he got C. digitalis, will you not
put one into your return letter, & let
me have it. I [must?] beg of him to find
me one. I hope he will do it. I am
looking for it.

Kunze's Carices, I hope he will
get for me, in the way he proposes.
I will see him paid.

Tho' it is long since your letter
came, I hope you will write at once.
I returned from P_d[Philadelphia], the first week of October
worn down by my three lectures a day.
Soon my youngest & [loved?] child sickened
with croup & died, leaving all our hearts
smitten. Nine children have I followed
to the grave, & am a stricken man. Then
a [?] of  business fell on me here. I
have had no leisure toll this day.

I wish to know how your two schools
go on, & get on. I have [trusted?] you
would do well, & think it will. But
        