
          will not be thro. [through] yet for a week.


 I have been at work hard,
 and am still at Expl. Exped. [Exploring Expedition]
 Compositae.


 Thus far, & I have gone thro. [through]
 two tribes Veroniaceae & Eupatoriaceae,
 the Expl. Coll. [Exploring Expedition Collection] is wonderfully
 poor & shabby, all 'long shore,
 and road-side species, and 
 little bits.


 As to those of yours in my
 charge still, if I remember you only
 want names & notes, not characters.


 In great haste


 Yours ever


  A. Gray


 Boston 6 [Feby. [February] 1849.


 Dear Doctor


 I have this day yours,
 but, as it not before me, I can only
 in general terms thank you for your
 recipe for glue. &c.


 This I send by my brother in law.
  
        