
          Your things for Bentham went to Hooker
 by last steamer.


 I want to real ripe fruit (with sound seeds) of
 Berchemia and of Sageretia. Can you give, or
 [underlined: lend] them, and send in letter.


 I want fruit also of Stuartia pentagyna,
 and of Gordonia pubescens. (I have here G. lasianthus
 & G. virginica) Will you peep in your herbarium
 and let me know if you can supply them,
 else I must send to the South for them.


 Jane and myself are very comfortably
 and cosily settled here already and have
 already the pleasure of entertaining our first
 guest in "Aunt Mary," the sister of your
 old friend the late Mr. Peirce, who is spending
 a day or two here before going back to
 Litchfield.


 I have just got a large
 box of Texan specimens from Wright. I try to
 dispose of some for his benefit. Does Mr. [Fuld?]
 want such things, or is his mind more
 occupied with law.


 I remain
 Ever Yours faithfully


 A.Gray

        