
          Cambridge, Monday 17th, Dec. 49

My Dear Doctor,

Having had no reply to my
two last, and no directions about nine
plants for Sprague to draw, I feel the
more confident that you are coming on
to see us at Christmas, and so bring
those matters with you.

Jane tho' with
a poor day has come down stairs to-day
and promises to be able to eat her Christmas
dinner with us.

As you can hardly lecture on Monday
I trust you will come Saturday, via
New Haven Rail Road.

You have probably seen Babington &
Planchon's paper about Anacharis & [?].
It was published after my manual appeared,
so I have never looked over the print [ernow?].
But to-night, I find, on looking out some
specimens to send Babington, that all my
specimens appear to be strictly dioecious,
not like those you [went?] to overhaul at Princeton
with good stamens in the fertile
        