
          time. I expect our family will remove hither
 on monday or tuesday to remain permanently, at least
 for the winter. I shall then be less pressed for time, than
 at present. I am sorry this matter of writing could
 not [crossed out: illegible] been delayed for a week or two. I should
 have felt very much more fit for the business than
 now.


 Mr. Knox has been scrubbing out the Laboratory,
 it needed it. ’tis [crossed out: illegible] in better condition than when
 you saw it last though even now there [?] not
 much order to it.


 In the Gardan At Home [crossed out: illegible] quite a number of
 fine, thrifty white grapevines have sprung from
 cuttings. They can be removed as well as not, do you
 wish them?


 Yours Respectfully
 Mina B. Halsted


 I pressed [insert: specimens] some of Muhlenbergia for you. I am afraid
 they will not be good ones. The leaves having already
 commenced to wither at the tips.
        