
          of the right kind, flowers, print &c., why not 
 recommend him to Fremont & Col. [ Colonel] Abert, and 
 get him a place? I think we cannot do better.
 If you think so please act upon the suggestion 
 without delay. The more collectors we can 
 get into the field the better, Buckley & all.


 About this time a Mr. [Ternes?] should arrive 
 in N.Y. [New York] with a small parcel of seeds & a few 
 plants from Lindheimer, to be left I suppose 
 either at W. &. P. [Wiley & Putnam] or at E. & T. Poppe's 92 Pearl 
 St. [Street]. I enclose a little parcel to be sent 
 to Engelm. [Englemann], which Wiley & Putnam will send to 
 E. & T. Poppe, with some other things directed in 
 my letter to them. It consists only of Returned 
 Compositae. Please send it, with the letter 
 to W. &. P. [Wiley & Putnam] as soon as may be. 


 I trust soon to hear how you found our dearest 
 Herbert. I can sympathize with you in this 
 trial, for the child is most dear to my heart. 
 Nothing but the sure persuasion that the afflictive
 dispensations of Our Heavenly Father are as truly
 mercies as those which we ordinarly [ordinarily] term blessings, can 
 afford us consolation under the bereavement we may
 be called to endure: I trust that may. But there 
 is still hope that the severe remedies employed may
 stop the progress of the disease. I regret this separation, 
 which prevents me from taking a part (small 
 though it be) in the care of attending him; but tho' [though]
 absent, I am not likely to forget him, nor his parents.
 God bless and keep you all.  Your affectionate


 A. [Asa] Gray

        