
          Rec'd  & Ansd [Received & answered
 Feby [February] 18th


 Cambridge, 15th February, 1847. 


 My Dear Friend 


 I have to-day a line from 
 Knieskern, in which he speaks of having the 
 sets of plants for Mr. Lowell at length ready 
 or nearly so, to be sent on to New York by the 
 first opportunity, and he desires me, when I 
 get his next letter, apprising me of the amount, 
 to get the money from Mr. L. [Lowell] and forward to 
 him by mail. It occurs to me that you 
 may have been advancing cash to him: 
 so that I would ask whether, in that case, I 
 should not, as I before intended, forward the amount 
 to you, that you may refund. I should suppose 
 his two sets ought to contain 500 species etc. 
 each. K. [Knieskern] has not yet named his price. 


 I have been excessively pressed with work, or I 
 should have written before. I shall have to 
 task myself to the utmost, and work with all 
 my might all the spring. I think I told 
 you that I had learned that Wood is stereotyping
 a new and amended edition of his book. I am 
 glad he stereotypes, but he is learning something,
        