
          I have sold this edition to the Websters
for six hundred dollars. Now do not
let your bookseller cheat you. Make
him pay well for your work. My little
Manual and Exercises has served as
pioneer to your work; and the way
is now so well prepared for it, that
a bookseller should pay a good sum.
The Websters will send you twelve 
copies of the 4th Ed. as soon as it
is bound. I include a Grammar of
Botany and Vocabulary in this Ed. The
vocabulary will all go into [13?] or [14?]
pages. This proves how much I [have?]
cut down the botanical nomenclature. 
If you would adopt the same plan
of using but few terms, your work would
be much more popular. To use several
words for the same thing, when there cannot
possibly be any thing like style at [any?]
rate, is absurd. The fool that talks
of botanical style in the N.A. Review, is
but a fool at best. He proves that he is ignorant
of the word style.

Have you read Edwin James' book? Tell me
your opinion of it. York once complained a little
of Edwin in a letter to me. Let me apologize 
for him.  He is, of himself, an excellent young man.
But it is next to impossible for a younger brother
to resist the solicitation and daily [?] of an
[elder?] can. Edwin, unfortunately has a brother
John, who is a downright fool. He has just in
to [?] enough to sustain in an mineral degree, the
character of a committed dandy, a contracted [viscious?]
jealous envious contemptible [dunce?]. He tells Edwin
to quarter no authorities [but?] Europeans, to have nothing
to do with the piddling Americans. Cite [?]
and Cuvier. Look to Europe!!!! Edwin does not

        