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 Rec'd [Received] June 22
 Ans'd [Answered] Aug't [August] 6th


 New Orleans, June 6, 1838


 Dr. Sir, 


 At the request of my Friend
 Dr. [Meline Conklin] Leavenworth I have put up &
 shiped [shipped] on the brig Mary Ann Capt.
 Wade, a box of specimens of Plants
 growing in the neighborhood of Alexandria.
 Circumstances which [cannot?]
 not be detailed here, have prevented
 me from forwarding them earlier
 & also from making the collection more
 extensive. Many of the sp. [species] are imperfect
 & badly prepared, and not
 knowing how to make a selection, I
 have put up, all of which I have
 duplicates, consequently many of
 no value to you. 

        