
          Troy, Aug. 2d. 1838.

My dear friend,

[Tisic?] and hard work chain
me down to the School. I hardly
write a note,  but on business.
I am delighted to receive your [added: long wished] prospectus.
I send you $5 for the
first volume, 4 own, 1/6 for
present postage, &c.[etc.] &c.[etc.] &c.[etc.] Do send
me No. 1 forthwith. I am 
greedy to see it.

Can I get Gray's grasses?
I am now preparing my 8th
Ed. of Manual. It will be out
next March. [added: [I will send it to you by sheets]] You know it is
every bodies [?]. Over
1500 copies per year have
been sold for last 6 or 7 years.
What shall I say in the preface about your Flora? I
will print, (verbatim) what you write for it, to the amount of
        