
          Ask Hastings to hurry on the 
 Hamburgh & other parcels, and not 
 forget to give me the name of W. & P.'s [Wiley & Putnam's]
 principal correspondent (bookselling
 house) in New Orleans. My letter 
 to Wright is kept waiting for it. 


 I got a small package from  W. & P. [Wiley & Putnam] 
 to-day. It should have been sent 
 with the rest. 


 Do you make gun-cotton? 
 It works well here. We had some fine
 illustrations at the Academy yesterday
 evening.


 What is the Chapman plant? 
    "       are the Cyperaceae from Crawe? 


 The wreck of the Atlantic is indeed 
 a dreadful calamity, and has caused 
 wide mourning. It is terrible to think 
 of. 


 I wish I could have been 
 with you at thanksgiving. 


 Yours ever,
 A. Gray
        