
          Manual was a more School-book, designed
to prepare students for more extensive [?]
&c.[etc.] &c.[etc.]  So you see, I have been compelled to
clash on in the dark, on account of your
negligence. In regrad to the success of your
work, I think I have prepared hundreds 
for it. They are very greedy, even hungering
and thirsting for such a work. It [added: looks] very
strange to see in your letter "dont[don't be alarmed &c.[etc.]"
when you know I have een urging you to
this, three or four years. So from any interference,
no two works can be devised, which will
[? effectually support each other. You ought
to give it in a partly snug type, with more
on a page that Pursh gives. Then you may
tell us a long story about each plant and not
make the work go beyond two [?] size 8vos

All I fear is your longing. You will probably 
condemn mine; because no great man, or
rather no great pedant, has written in that style.
Every one prefers my manner for himself I
find; because he can understand me better
than he can understand any other style. But
still he must tell other folks that it [added: is] defective
in a literary view &c.[etc.]  This is all affected [?]
nonsense. I have considered all that those fellows
could say in two years, and all their stuff is as
trite to me as "every one to [?] [crossed out: ?]
"notion as the old woman said when she
"kissed the bull."
        