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 Cambridge, Friday.
 [in a different ink: April 1848?]


 My Dear Friend,


 In your letter received today is one point
 which makes me reply right away. Surely I would never
 fail to answer at [once?] a specific inquiry. Nor did I
 the day after yours came including the specimens of the
 [?] pl. Linnia [?]. As I was writing to Keoltow I 
 answered several points in your letter in [?] [?] _
 knowing you would there see him every day. Among them
 I remember distinctly saying that the plant in question
 was a Zinnia having all the characters of one,
 [?] the rays not (yet) chartaceous. Surely Keoltow must
 have [?] to you the various answers my letter
 contained to your queries. Afterwards if I remember
 rightly, I inclosed the specimens in the very same letter
 though I am not sure [but?] I enclosed in a later letter
 directed to yourself. I supposed you wanted the
 information directly for immediate use. I therefore
 gave it at once. Ask Keolton.


 Glad to hear of Fremont
 He will do something now he is no longer a fighting-man 

        