
          Recd. [Received] Novr. 3rd
Ansd. [Answered] Nov. 15th

Williams College Nov. 1, 1836

My dear Sir,

I returned last week from my tour & 
among my letters, I had the pleasure of reading one from
yourself. As I expect ere long to see you it will not be 
necessary to say any thing at this time except what relates 
to the business of your communication. The plants 
from Mr. Darby I shall be pleased to see. I hope you will 
supply yourself with the duplicates if there are any, but 
dont take the best!! & will it not be convenient when you 
come up to Albany to take them along. There is to be a meeting 
of the geol [geologists] & naturalists at A. [Albany] about the 15 of Nov. 
I have collected all those plants in my excursion which were unknown 
to me, & so has Mr. Hall. We shall of course put them into 
your hands. I left a few at your house about the 1st of August. 
You were not at home. There was a strange [crossed out: Turritis?] Turritis 
which I obtained North is the Spring. There was only one specimen of it 
MacComb [Macomb] Mountain, abound at the summit with Alpine plants 
much the same as the White Hills of N.H. [New Hampshire]. We were too late this year.
        