
          Recd [Received] Novr [November] 23rd
and [Answered]  Decr [December] 12

Botanic Garden & Nursery 
Newburgh 21st Nov/36

My Dear Sir

I had hoped to have called upon you this 
morning but the violent storm prevented my leaving home. 
I return herewith Mr. Reynolds [added: pamphlet] with thanks. We shall expect 
much from Dr. Gray if he goes out, & you may tell him that 
I shall expect a little for I suppose I ought to be anticipating 
the growing of Palms by the time he returns: I shall be glad to 
hear that the Sec. of the Nav. [Secretary of the Navy] will send him abroad for books as
ought by all means to be the case but fear Mr Dickersons parsimony.
The box of Empetrums arrived in excellent order to all appearance,
& [added: they] are safely planted, some in pots subject to your drafts, & some 
in the open ground. If it does not grow this time I will shut it 
up in hermetically sealed cases à la Ward. I find a good many 
excellent things in the package of seeds from London which you have 
been so kind as to send me, and a great many quite unknown 
to me, where have they come from?

Accompanying you will receive the paper of [Cyceeden?]. It was written in
haste & I was not surprised on reperusing it to find abundance of errors. 
I have altered it I hope for the better & said a few words about 
the history &c of C. rev [Cycas revoluta?] as you desired. I have also alluded to Cerda's 
discoveries in a note as you will see through I confess it is quite 
gratuitous on my part particularly as I have never seen either the original 
or Dr. Gray's translation, he being out when I last called at the Lyceum
        