
          Bridgewater (Oneida Co [County]) N.Y. [New York] Jan  1st 1831


 Dear Sir, 


 I received your letter, through Prof. [Professor] Hadley a few 
 weeks since, and I embrace the earliest opportunity of transmitting 
 a few specimens of those plants, of which you wished a further 
 supply. I regret that the state of my herbarium will not admit 
 of my sending as many specimens of each as I could wish or as 
 would be desirable to you. I shall be able to obtain an additional 
 supply of most of them during the ensuing summer, when it will 
 give me pleasure to supply you with those, or any other interesting 
 plants which I may meet with. I send you a few Grasses, 
 numbered, also a few Mosses, etc When you have liesure [leisure], you 
 will oblige me by sending the names of those numbered, & 
 rectify any errors in those labelled. If you should be desirous 
 of additional specimens, please let me know it & I will 
 supply you in the course of next summer. 


 You ask me whether I am desirous of obtaining the plants peculiar
 to N.Y. New Jersey &c. or of European plants. I should be highly 
 gratified by receiving any plants you think proper to send me, and 
 will repay you, so far as in my power, by transmitting specimens 
 of all [added: the] interesting plants I discover. I know little of Exotic 
 Botany, having no foreign specimens. I am particularly attached to 
 the study of the Grasses, Ferns, &c. If you have any 
 specimens to transmit to me, please, leave them with Mr. 
 Franklin Brown, Atty. [Attorney] at Law, Inns of Court, Beekman St.
 who will forward them to me by the earliest opportunity.
        