
          Newburgh 29th June 1838

My dear Sir

I wrote you from Northampton
Mass. about 12 days since enclosing the constitution
etc. of our Hort. Society which you were to get this
the press. I then intended to call & see you and I 
came thro New York but as I was obliged to be 
here on Tuesday last I had necessarily to come [nicely?]
thro N.Y. wihtout stopping and was therefore prevented
that pleasure.

I hope the little pamphlet containing the constitution etc.
is ready or nearly so. You know they are to be distributed
in different counties & we ought to do it soon 
in order to get a accession of members before the great
exhibition in Autumn.

I have recently had the honor of being elected a corresponding
memeber of the Massachusetts Hort. Soc. The diploma which
they have sent me is very pretty and with a variation in the
vignette might server as a model for ours. It is a 
lithograph & I think a consideration that would be
at once the cheapest & best style for our diploma,
Introducing as I suggested the view of the valley of the
Hudson in the distance with a foreground of plants &
        