
          7th March [in another pen: 1848 (?[initials: ?])]


 Dear Doctor


 Hard work alone
 prevents my writing to you  _


 I want reply from Grant
 to questions asked in enclosed slip.


 I told you Fendler's specimens
 are truely fine, so far as I have
 seen.  The sets will soon be
 here _ must be distributed to give
 him cash to live on. Meanwhile
 he has offered to go back _ stay 
 2 years _ & collect largely, if we
 can get for him an outfit.
 Do you know any one who will advance
 to get his pay in plants 1st instalment
 next winter. -


 We want 4 or 5 hundred
 Mr. L. has promptly offered $200.
 Back he must go.


 I want to hear from you very soon
 about Streptanthus.


 Yours ever


 A. Gray

        