
          Recd [Received] Decr [December] 8th
Ansd [Answered] Decr [December] 28.
Sent 3 sets of Flora I & II

Charleston 30th Nov. 1838

My dear Sir,

I hope that you
will pardon me, for allowing so
long an interval to lapse before
acknowledging the receipt of your
prospectus. It gave me, I assure you 
no little satisfaction, and I hail it
with joy as indicating the yet onward
course of American Botany.
Materials have been accumulating
for some time but I believe no important
work on American Botany
has appeared for several years.

The reason of my delay in writing
are these. Your prospectus reached [added: me]
a little before the middle of August
and I wished before writing to make some
exertions to procure you subscribers. Before
however I had done all that I could wish,
the apperance of the disease that has
proved so fatal to strangers in our
        