
          New Haven. Feb. 27th 1817

Dear friend,

You will receive your herbaraium
by Jesse Gilbert Esquire of this place. I directed
it to Professor Mitchill for you.

I am ashamed to be obliged to tell you
that I have not assorted my collection beyond
the 12th Sep. So far I have sent
you such specimens as were not named
in your letters, nor contained in your herbarium.
I was never in my life so pressed
with business as this winter. I have several
private students, I attend 5 lectures 
each week in chemistry and two on mineralogy. 
I have superintended the printing
of my Botanical Dictionary (sold
now by [T. & J.] Swords in N. York) and have
done much for one [Nathan S.] Read in preparing an
Astronomical Dictionary &c. &c. &c.
        