
            Boston October 15, 1831

My Dear John

I was very [?] to find that
you had been obliged to give up your visit
to Boston & tho there might not be much to be
accomplished in the field of Tewksbury at this
season I think we could have our own work of one
[?] or another that would have kept you pretty
busy for a week as [?]  wants as in addition to
my herbarium I have lately rec'd from D. Hooker
a set of Drummond's mosses besides 500,000 specimens
of [?] plants nearly half of which are from
the North West [crossed out: plants]. These I think you would be
much pleased to look over-also his [?]
a coloured copy of the Flora Erotica & this first
numbers of the Flora boreali Americana- now if
I could get you here in a [real?] North East.  
        