
          Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh Sept 11th 1837

My dear Sir

I have not answered your interesting letter
written some time since nor acknowledged the receipt of the interesting
pamphlets accompanying it because I had hoped ere this to
have seen you personally. On calling at your house in town
some days ago you were away from home and since that I
have been expecting to see you here almost daily.

I was much pleased with your account of your visit to
the Mts and hope will be able to dispatch the collector
as you propose to secure some living as well as dried
plants. During your absence I had Limnanthes douglasii very
nicely in bloom upon my rock-word but since almost detroyed
by the hot sun. For the seeds as you will probably recollect I 
am indebted to you.

Pray tell me whether Mr [W.W. Mather] the geologist of this district
has passed through yet on his survey or whether we may
yet expect to see him. He promised to call on me when
        