
          Troy. May 11th 1819.

Some how I missed sending this letter and forgot it, until today. I have goven four lectures
in my new course in Botany here.

I wanted Pursh so much, that I borrowed
Beck's and had both volumes bound volumes hammered close
and bound in one volume with your Catalogue
labelled or lettered, Pursh's Flora & Torrey's
Catalogue. I must buy another Pursh 
with plates not colored, for Beck. You
once wrote, that possibly you might exchange
my Indexes for Pursh. How did you ever success
in that traffic? For how much can I buy Pursh? and where?

Dr Townsend can tell you my proposed 
jaunt with Chancellor Lansing, &c. [etc.]

If you do not go to Europe, when will
you be at Troy? If you do go to Europe, when 
will you return?

A.E.

        