
          Ansd Dec 20th


 Dear Sir,


 I beg you to receive my thanks for the plants
 you have been good enough to send me through Mr.
 Milhan, who has not as yet found an opportunity
 to transmit them to me. They will be a source of great
 enjoyment for the long nights of winter.


 I lend you the 3 last vol [volume] of Decandole; I am
 unable to procure them to you otherwise. Dr. Togus, brother
 in law of Mr. Milhan, is starting for Paris by the
 packet of the 8th, you might give him the money
 to buy them for you. You could not fail to receive them
 in the course of 60 or 70 days. I shall be very much in 
 want of them during the winter.


 I have, since my last, received a letter from 
 Mr. Wolle, who sends me another specimen of the Saxifraga,
 Without flowers [crossed out: illegible] fruit, as the only one he can dispose of at
 present. He will next year collect as many as he can.
 He knows but our locality on a mountain where it grows
 abundantly. If any thing curious in a bundle he is
 preparing for me, I will send it to you.


 Respectfully yours
 E. [Elias] Durand
        