
          Red [Received] May 12th


 1843


 And [Answered]


 Saturday Evening 7th May


 I have just received a letter from [added: Buckley at] Albany, 
 dated May 2nd, by a private hand; in which 
 he states that Mr. Silliman Jr. [Junior] tells him it will not 
 be possible to publish the whole of his article in 
 the ensuing number of their Journal, and he
 therefore wishes me to send on merely the descriptions
 of new plants to be printed at once, leaving 
 out the rest. He also wishes me to leave out 
 the description of a new Sabria, which he thinks 
 may be only a var. [variant] of S. [Sabria] urticifolia. 


 Apropos to the above, a letter from Prof. [Professor] 
 Kunze just received, mentions having received 
 a set of Rugel's plants distributed by Mrs. 
 Shuttleworth (from Mts. [Mountains] Carolina &c.), "in which 
 are several new species". Whether published, or 
 merely named in the distributed sets is more than I know. [added: I suspect the former. I shall write 
 Shuttleworth, by the next steamer, asking for the descr. [description] if published.]


 If you publish Buckleya, had you not 
 better do it at once, sending the mss. [manuscript] to Silliman 
 forthwith. The plate must be numbered, I 
 suppose. Or will you wait to see what they have 
 done with Rugel's coll [collection]. 


 Shall I cut out Buckley's description, and send 
 them bare and naked, without any preface?


 Monday afternoon.


 Dear Doctor, Your kind favor, postmarked the 6th has this moment 
 reached me. Shall I cut out Buckley's descriptions, and send 
 them? I wait for your answer. If so you had last furnished me with a
 new sketch of the char. gen. [general characteristics?] of Buckleya, leaving detail [added: & figure] for a 
 separate article by yourself. Pray you get me a copy of Fremont's
        