
          Cambridge 22d Sept 1856.


 Dear friend 


 Yes! Your stamps all
 received, & we are delighted to
 hear of Maggy's arrival.


 Now presently, after the edge 
 of her return is a little 
 taken off & she can begin to 
 think of her friends, you must 
 bring her on here, and let us 
 have a look at her. Meanwhile
 our love & congratulations. 


 As to Asclepias lanuginosa,
 you wrote me you had nothing to identify 
 Nuttall's plant by. And 
 Nuttall evidently had nothing 
 when he wrote his Arkansas paper, 
 & Asclepias ["Naseyii"?] grows
 up about White R. [River], & is the only 
 one I know of these, and accords pretty 
 well with Nuttall's character. 
 But Quien sabe?
        