
          Ansd [Answered] July 15th


 Hamilton College June 9th 1834


 7.


 Dear Sir


 Your letter of the 13th ult [ultimate] with the bundle 
 of books was, in due time. received. Yours of the 2nd
 ult. [ultimate] was received at the same time. I can send you 
 no more copies of Gram. [Gramineae] &c.  all I brought up are subscribed 
 for and delivered. "Maj. [Major] Downing" who subscribes 
 for two copies (one for himself. and one for his friend the Gin'ral [General?]
 I suppose) as well as the other subscribers must wait until
 fall. I am lecturing here to a small but quite 
 intelligent Senior class, 26 in number, just enough 
 to fill three sides of a large table, and time passes 
 very pleasantly. The small fund for the support 
 of this institution will I think be secured, but the 
 trustees do not act in concert with the faculty, and
 it is rumoured, quarrel among themselves, so that. unless 
 some changes are effected in the board, I fear the college
 will not be sustained. I shall remain here 
 5 weeks longer, and then have a short engagement
 at Utica. I have promised to make a visit to 
 the North in August. I wish very much that I 
 was able to remain there 6 or 7 weeks, to examine 
 with attention, the vegetation of the primitive region 
 in St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties. I can
 not doubt. that the mountains, and the banks of 
 the large streams of that region would furnish a 
 rich harvest of plants. That range is an extension 
 of one from the far north, which, passing 
 between the Great Lakes and Hudson's Bay, crosses


 It will be best by all means not to trouble yourself in preparing
 the 2 copies of Gram. & Cyp. [North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae] left with you. I will  have them, with several
 others bound up early in the fall.
        