
          now two. But I know that
 DC. [De Candolle] sent you his book.


 I lay these things aside 
 for you, hoping and expecting 
 you will soon come and see 
 us. The painters and paperes [paperers] are 
 still in the house. But in a 
 week from this all will be 
 in order, and dear wife and I 
 most ready to welcome you. 


 No harm has come from 
 the delay in Whipple's collection,
 I presume yet. But now I 
 stand ready to help you in all 
 that you require. You can
 bring on & we will work at them 
 tho' I must keep some other irons 
 also in the fire. 


 Has Pope's and Beckwith's Rept. [Report]
 been issued, & have you copies? 
 Did they send you proofs of 
 Stevens' Exped. [Expedition], the Botany, and 
 did you read them? 
 Or have they done nothing 
 at Washington yet?
        