
          I hope next spring to be able to give particular
 attention to the Cyperaceae. You would do
 me a favour by having put up, with the
 Flora, a copy of your work on the 'Carices'
 or if published in the Annals of the Lyceum,
 the volume containing it.


 Please let me hear from you as soon as convenient.
 I wait anxiously to learn the result of your further
 examination of the parcel.


 Yours truly
 Josiah Hale


 P.S. If your Colleague in the Scientific
 Survey of the State of New York, Mr. T.A. [Timothy Abbott]
 Conrad, should be in your neighbourhood,
 be so good as to say to him, that according
 to promise, I [crossed out: partial?] collected a parcel of
 the shells of Red River, and shiped [shipped] the box
 on board the Packet Ship [Sofia?] which
 sailed from N. [New] Orleans for Philadelphia
 on the 15th of February last. -- consignment
 to J. Dobson -- and that I have written
 him twice but received no answer. 


 J.H.  
        