
          fellow perfectly happy. They will do up [?]
 at a great rate. L. says that the collection
 & library of Sullivant in [?] are "magnifique,
 superbe, the best he ever saw".


 I have sent to Wilmington [?] for seeds of Gordonia


 Young [Cooke?] who has gone to Europe to recruit his
 health took your two parcels to Bentham.


 Send the Potentillae, and I think I can get sketches-^[inserted: made]
 that will satisfy old Lehmann.


 London Quarterly Review came, with the parcel.


 I write Dr. Gould, to supply what you need
 of preceedings Brit. [inserted: N] Hist. [?].


 I mail you the 1st part of New [vl.?]- [wh.?] I
 do not care to keep.


 Sprague, I may say, will willingly make
 drawings for E. Ex. with as many details only as a
 Fremontia for $10. each. But when there are
 materials we shall want often to put on much more!
 That as you please.


 Jane was getting on finely; but over did herself
 last week & then, being weak & unstrung, has suffered
 much in health from the sudden death of a cousin, a sweet 

        