
          Cambridge 28' Nov. 1849.

My Dear Doctor

Pressed for time above measure, I have
not yet been able to reply to your favor of 9th inst [instant]
& Jane also much occupied, with friends here
& engagements & duties growing out of it has had not
time to write to my dictation.

The draft came safely. I have credited you
on the note, with the [surplus?] you sent.

Dec [?] 26 - You remitted to me for Sprague
#85 out of the $100 that Henry placed in your hand.
That will perhaps be all that S. will be entitled
to.

He is now at work at the plates, has
finished the Portulaceous genus, & nearly the
the Bombacea.

I hope for a move by Saturday,
& what there are I will send to you
by Harvey on Monday next, that you may
see them before sending to [smudged out: the] Prestele.

Sprague
has the [Adenortomaceous?] things partly done, & now
wants to know what others he is to undertake.

What shall they be?

I suppose you will hardly
use Endotheca now, except after first studying it,
you feel ready to make a genus of it, which very likely
it is. If that much of fruiting you think is natural, then figure
it, by all means. 

        