
          Williams College, July 18th 1817

Dear friend,

I have had two days notice, that
Major Sloan was going to N. York. But
I could not write a word till this evening.
I have a thousand thing to say, but shall
say little.

This cruciform plant I call Draba
arabisans? Muhlenberg says, he never saw it.
I presume he had a bad description of it. You
see it has pinnatifid leaves etc. It grows wild
every where in wet meadows. I found it also
at N. [New] Haven. Write me your best botanists'
opinions.

This Lonicera is the one I mentioned in
my letter to you. It grows sometimes thirty
feet high, twining very closely to other
trees. But the largest stem is not one inch
in diameter at the base. It grows on high
dry hills.

I have just labelled my four hundred
and forty seventh indigenous plant, gathered
here this season. My students are very zealous.
Many of them are making very elegant
herbaria. I deliver six lectures every 
week extempore, good one public written one
in the chapel. The faculty favor my efforts
in the best manner possible.

I have received several invitations from
        