
          New Bedford 3 mo [month] [March] 20. 1828.


 Dear Doctor


 I sent thee last fall, in the month of 
 October if I rightly recollect, a parcel of dried plants of
 thirteen different kinds, with a letter stating my doubts
 and difficulties in regard to them and requesting explanations.
 I have heard nothing from thee since and do not know 
 if they ever reached thee. If they did, by referring to that
 letter, thou wilt find the enquiries I wish to have answered;
 if they did not, it would be of no use for me to repeat them
 here. Among them were some specimens fo Orchis herbiola
 and of Inula falcata, preserved and forwarded as thou hadst
 requested. Wilt thou do me the favour to turn to them, if they
 are in thy possession and reply to my enquiries, as I felt myself
 at the time more or less at a loss to determine satisfactorily
 the species of nearly every one of them.


 I sent them by one of the regular packets plying between
 this port and New York. I do not recollect which of 
 them, having previously received a similar parcel from thee
 by the same conveyance.


 Respectfully
 Thy friend,
 Thos [Thomas] A Greene.
        