
          Recd & Answd Sept. 30th

Botanic Garden & Nursery Newburgh 28. Aug./33

Dear Sir

I acknowledge with the greatest pleasure
the receipt of your favor of the 24th and cannot express my
gratification at the commencement of a correspondence
with one who holds such a prominent place among the friends of
science in America.

The information with regard to the Dionaea that you was
so kind as to communicate I shall take immediate advantage
of as we are anxious to obtain a considerable supply.  The [?]
you are so good as to offer I shall by very much
pleased to see - McNab is as [your say?]  a distinguished  [cultivator?]
his treatise is spoken very highly of by the European periodicals 
and I believe no copies have yet reached this country.
Speaking of books I take the opportunity to say that nothing
could afford me greater gratification than to look over
your Botanical library & herbarium - Foreign Botanical literature 
is so comparatively scarce in this country that I feel it
quite a [first?] to meet with a good collection.  We are anxious
to open a correspondence & exchange with some first reat Botanic Gardens
in Europe. - perhaps with Dr. Graham the celebrated professor at Edinburgh
        