
          ansd. verbally

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh 21 April 34

Dear Sir

In the last letter which I had the
pleasure of receiving from you, you expressed a probability
of being in the neighborhood in the course of 2 or 3 weeks
in which case you would call on me.  Thinking to 
see you in person I have until this time delayed
answering your query concerning the correspondence
with the Secretary of the Lond. Hort. Soc. You ask
me which of the two gentlemen Prof Lindley or Mr Bartlett
I should prefer corresponding with.  The fact is it
would make no difference to us in any other way
than thus we would be pleased to communicate with that
the who will from [leisure?] interest in the cause &
he most likely to facilitate our & his own views.  Perhaps
you from acquaintance with these gentlement can decide
better than we are able to do.  It is now too late in 
        