
          to analyze it minutely; but I preferred your
doing it, Therefore I wrote him, that you would
furnish him with a minute analysis. He said, in
his answer to my letter, that he should be much
pleased at receiving it from you for publication.
in his journal. he certainly expects it. I really
wish you would do it; because it is at least
a new variety, if nothing more.

You know, without talking, that I should like
such a situation, as you mention, at the Botanic
garden. And you are right in supposing me
better qualified for this, than for any other employment.
I worked on a farm two summers, I superintended 
the cultivation of 1200 acres for five 
years, and I know all about theoretical and practical
agriculture at it is understood at this 
day. But you and I know, that I could
never obtain such a situation. It would
certainly be given to some boasting ignorant
foreigner, as all things if this kind are in
every part of the United States, New England
excepted. I can procure any certificate of recommendation
from 50 or 60 [added: principal] members of the
        