
          [Lowell?] takes a set of [?] plants.


 I trust Hastings [wages?] are raised now.


 [?] Tuckerman sent you a bound copy of
 his lichens? If not, I can give you a copy
 with title-page [?], in sheets, as I took (at cost)
 20 copies from T.


 It is not been so very cold here.
 I believe it is contemplated that I am to marry
 (Deo favente) on the 4th of May, if Miss L. can get
 her father properly taken care of by that time,
 and get her own affairs ready. But, as the house
 in time must be closed, and the family, what is
 left of it, go the same day to Beverly for the Summer
 there cannot be anything of a wedding,
 which I like the better, on the whole, for, hurried as I am
 now, I can hardly find time to devote more than an
 hour to the business.


 Today I put some plants in the new
 cases of my new study, which when you see them you
 will pronounce to be nice, I am certain.


 Good-night. Love to all. Yours ever


 A. Gray

        