
          Recd Dec 3rd

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh Dec 2nd 1836

My dear Sir

As I did not have the pleasure of seeing you
when I called at your house on Monday last I must take
the opportunity of writing to you on a little matter which I could
only have mentioned then. The Boston Magazine will come
out in a new form on January next with a handsome cover
& an alteration in its title viz: "The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany
Etc." & consdierable efforts will be make to increase its
subscription list, which is now very respoectable, in order to
be able to afford plates of plants occasionally.
Naturally feeling interested in the success of such a periodical
& being a friend on the conductors who are exceedingly clever
in their profession I have take the liberty at their solicitation
to request that you would furnish a short article for the
Jan no. Perhaps a page or two thrown together in the shape 
of botanical news or gossip relating to the affairs of the past
year & prospect for example Nuttall's [?] town, Drummonds 
death, the [?] expedition etc. which will be highly interesting
        