
          Hudson. July 20th 1819 6 o'clock AM

Dear friend,

I ahve just received yours, dated
13th [ins?] & post-marked 17.th  You say you must
have specimens in two or three days; that is, one
or two days before your letter went to the Post-office.
Still I believe you were not born in Ireland.

Now as I do not believe any thing you may say as to
time, I will go out, as soon as I finish breakfast,
to Becroft's Mt. two miles east of Hudson and 
pick up all the organic relics I can find, and
send them by the next boat. as to the Orchis
blephariglottis, it grows no where in this district
except in a pond 5 miles east of Troy. As I
shall not go home until next Sunday, you
can not depend on me. If you can wait for the
following process you may get it. Write to Dr.
Marvin [added: Troy] and tell him you are informed that
it is in a pond 5 miles east of Troy, that it is
the white-flowered Orchis &c.[etc.] he will find it
as soon as it can be found.

You have several times enquired about [an?]
[Ceabudon?]; though I believe I took you all about
it. I will tell you again. It is among the
hobbies of the Troy folks (and I ride it the
hardest) to make botany a past of common school
learning in the Summer season. We intend to have
our Yankee girls teach it. And we think it
would aid them greatly to have a little book, which
        