
          in the house next to me, a Dr. Salm, for 
several years a resident, I am told, of your
city and but recently arrived here. The sufferers
are chiefly if not altogether foreigners
Germans and Irish. The whole number of 
deaths [added: white & black] in the city for week ending the 19th
was 40, of which only 8 were natives; deaths
by yellow fever 21, none that I am aware were 
natives. As our population is about 45,000
the deaths last week were about 1 in 1100, 
and for the sake of comparison I wish
you would give me the mortality in
New York for the same week and the
ratio to population. The disease has not
abated. I expect it to continue to the end of
the month, with equal or perhaps increased
virulence, and then gradually abate to
the middle of Oct.

Since I wrote asking for Ferns, I have 
gone over my Herbarium, and collections made
in the last two years, and also last April in
our mountains, and find that I have several 
that I wrote to you for, and will make out a 

        