
          Ansd [Answered] Sept 1st
Recd. [Received] Aug 30 - with a bag of fruit

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh 28th July 1834

Dear Sir

I acknowledge with pleasure the receipt of yours
of day before yesterday. The parcel you were so kind as
to send me via Princeton came all safe & in good time
but I was then absent for a couple of days at Gosher & 
Montgomery in this country and had not therefore the pleasure
of writing you immediately as I should have done. I was
however upon the point of doing so yesterday when I received
your last  - but upon the receipt of it concluded that I
might defer doing so until to day when I might at the same
time forward the accompanying basket which I hope you will
gratify me by accepting ... I confess the little note which you
last enclosed was really quite a relief for I was much puzzled
& with as amused at the package of seeds ( for which by the way
allow me most sincerely to thank you)  you sent me at first. I 
was quite puzzled in as much as they were neither labelled nor
accompanied by an explanation from you & quiet amused by
the singular manner in which they had been put up. After
much conjections however I concluded that you must have
enclosed them in my package by mistake & was heartily glad
to find than it turns out the be such a excellent collection
I shall immediatily  put them up in fresh papers & pack them
away from the air until next spring as it is now too
        