
          very high priced. I intend to make most of my
students purchase it. Therefore such of my errors
as you correct directly or indirectly will
not finally mislead. But you must not forget
that some of your New York botanists are often
hasty and crude in their researches. Go steady with
new things. I care not who is disrespectfully
treated respecting making so many orders out of
the ferns. It is making that part of the study
very intricate without any possible advantage.
This desire for innovation is the ruin of natural
science. To science is of every thing indelicate 
is essential; if we intend the female part of our
case to become acquainted with it. And this is 
all important to its [added: final] success. You speak of
the [added: rejection of the] word Phallus as going to far, because
few know its import. Miss Francis [?] 
of Northampton, two of my Albany girls and
three or four in Troy are good latin scholars,
and very [consciously?] search for the origin
of the generic and specific names of all the plants
they find. [?] single word of this kind would
do much mischief. The New England girls are
[added: half a country] before your Yorkers in mental [improvement?]
and [three centuries?] before them in real and
unaffected delicacy.

General Eaton's daughter, Charlotte, is coming
here the first of next month to stay 6 or 8 
weeks. If you happen here then you will see
a specimen of that kind of mental improvement 
which is worth cultivating in girls, though 
I believe she is not a linguist.

I presume there are some gross omissions in my [added: manual]

[Sideways: Remember C. stands for plants about N. York. There is New Jersey unless
too far down are of course included]
        