
          [in pencil at top of page: Arvd. March [5 th?]]

Rochester Feb. 23, 1858

My Dear Sir,

I received the other
day a package of Carices
from the Mexican Boundary
Survey. I think the package
was from your hand, as the 
direction looked like your
well-known, [?] & gladly
known, hand. No note was
in it, & no letter has come
about it. Perhaps, it has
wandered from its proper
place. But, admitting you
sent it, I asked what is to
be done to it & about it &
with it? May I have
any specimens, [where?] there
        