
          Troy.  June 25th 1821

Dear friend,

Not half a [?] chosen has
occurred in my time since I came here, which 
was the 9th of May. Now I stay from meeting
to write to you and four or five others.

Yesterday I sent the 3d Ed.[Edition] of our Manual.
as far as the 168th page, into the post office
for you, that you may see the genera compleat
and point out errors &c.[etc.] for the errata.

We only progress at the rate of 48 pages
per week, therefore it will not be finished before
the last of July or first of August. Now do
send me any additional species of Crypts, not
marked in your books, and every thing else
you have. This edition will cost me about
a thousand dollars, and I wish to make it
as compleat as possible. My short [?] of
giving synonyms and authorities, I presume
you will approve in a work of this kind.
We have so enlarged the page, that we calculate
to have this edition make quite as small
a book as the other. And we shall first [?] some
in flexible or soft morocco binding, well 
beat and close cut, so as to make a very
convenient pocket book.

Perhaps you will not approve my giving
33 pages to Gussian's Nat. Ordr. But my experience
has placed this matter out of question.
The quackery past of my [added 1st &] 2d Ed. did more
for the extension of the study than all the
laborious research of every botanist in America.

[vertical note in left margin]
N.B. I intend soon to propose a digested Schema for uniting under the  New York Lyceum
as branches, the Troy, Hudson and CatskillLyceums, and [use?] to be [?] [?] and made
us Auburn and mostly at Cannadaigua. We can then get strengthenough in the legislature to
do something.

        