
                                                                      Boston July 1, 1832

My Dear Sir,

I rec'd your letter of Feb 28
a few days before setting sail for Charleston
from whence I returned early last month the [?] 
without any locality [enhanced?] or [prefined?] was 
written & delivered to some gentleman who was 
going to the South & promised to drop it into your
Work Office. You may be certain I should not 
have passed through N. York without your hearing of it.
I have sent some of the Splachnum to Dr. Hooker &
hope before long to hear from him. Have you heard
anything of  Drummond within a year? On my
return from Ch. I found here a  [?] for it shells
which I presume you sent my Father [?] that there
was a letter at the same tie from N.Y. this was
sent on to Philadelphia but I have not yet rec'd it.

        