
          [ top right: (Jan?) 1848]

Cambridge. Friday

Dear Friend

Thanks for your kind
& sympathizing letter. I write
in great haste _ to save the mail
for N Y. from Boston _ to say that
I have sent parcel to you by
Adams Express. _ _ with
Mr. Emory's plants _ brief notes.

One or two of those  can [prs.?]
will afford duplicates. I should like
them _ and presntly if you do
not describe them fully I will
if you [?] describe the new
genera fully in Amer. Acad._
You can give brief notes in Emory.

I have now to look out for
a publisher for [?] -
it costs so much that W. &
Putnam decline to take it, except
at an offer which would make me pay
right off nearly 1/3 of the cost, while they
        