
          Cambridge, Monday Evening

My Dear Doctor

I got a parcel Saturday Evening.
containing a parcel for [Lickenmann?] (which I shall have
to-morrow. (too stormy to send to-day), the Journals etc.,
from Hooker. (Did you pay any charges? If so let
me know, that I may collect of Greene, etc.), and
the parcel of Malvaceae, etc. [Gramm?], etc.

I will send notes as I look at them, to-morrow, or
when my proofs come in, for all my notes in Malv,
have gone to the printer. I wish you had sent them
along with the rest before. However those of Emory are
mostly Sphaeralcea, a genus which it did not fall in my
way to [revise?]. I had merely mentioned 2 or 3 [?] sp. of
yours from [added: Fremont,] Emory, etc. But what you now send, as I
glanced over, made me doubt of your S. emoryi. Those
canescent ones run together, I fear.-

Sprague has the original spec. of Geranium fremontii,
& will bring it in to me to-morrow. I must then over-haul
[Engelmann's?] notes once more, on 1/2 doz. species he distinguishes-
& then send to [press?].

Carey wrote that he left some day last week
a [inserted: "long] letter" to me, with the bag, sent in your parcel.
I could find nothing of said letter. Is it not left
at the Med. Coll.

To-day I have a letter from Bentham [?] which
I enclose to you, as he seems , at date (Oct. 27.) to have as
yet received no letter from you naming some of the [Hartny?] plants
which I indicated to you as in the [Hartny?] coll. - the Saxifrage & the
Hypericum. etc. Did you write him? and when?

Please send back to me his letter in your next, as I
want to look at one or two plants he refers to, and write him,
        