
          Recd.[Received] May 4th
And.[Answered] May  5 [?]

Boston May 1, 1835

My dear Sir,

I regret to find that I have let a 
month escape without an answer to yrs[yours] of 1 Apr.
when I recd.[received] it. I had not looked at or opened any
of my plants & could not say whether there was
any thing worth sending you or not. I have since
looked over the Scirpi which I had selected for
my herbarium before I went away & at first thought
there was nothing which would interest you and
perhaps this is the case, however if I had known of
my private opportunity I think I should have
sent you all I could lay my hands on. & will
forward them now by one of the packets if you
think it worth while, there is none of the Tewksbury
&c.[etc.] with mature fruit tho' gathered as late as September 
        