
          Recd [Received] July 16th


 Sauquoit N.Y. 9th July, 1835.


 Dear Sir


 I am sorry to inform Iyou that the promised letter 
 from yourself has not yet reached me 'though it has been 
 looked for for some time. I wish gently to jog your memory in 
 this respect and to ask the favour of a line from you in case 
 your time is not wholly occupied by your duties at Princeton, 
 which. I doubt not are quite laborious.


 I am progressing a little with my rather formidable task, in fact 
 I am making haste quite slowly and am now discussing the mysteries 
 of exogenous & endogenous stems. I have studied little this week,
 for I found that close confinement was spoiling my health, so I 
 have been taking quite severe exercise almost constantly, by 
 which I am considerably improved already, although my bones 
 ache prodigiously! I have not yet botanized largely. When 
 at Bridgewater I secured all I could find of the new Carex, also C [Carex]
 chordorhiza, which, by the way, Crawe has found in his region. I hope soon 
 to collect more extensively but in this vicinity there are no plants of
 especial interest. I have just now a mania for examining 
 and preserving the roots and fruits of our plants (I make notes of 
 everything in a copy of your Compendium) and I hope to bring you 
 a collection in this way which will interest, and perhaps be of some 
 use to you. Fruits and ripe seeds are not often to be obtained.
 at least in a proper state, in our herbaria. I have been examining 
 our Smilax rotundifolia. It is a regular endogenous shrub. 
 although it sometimes dies nearly to the ground. but always 
 sends out a branch from the uppermost node which survives 
 the winter. It branches, just as any endogen would, because the

        