
          idea what Pickering's plans 
 are. He wrote to Dana 
 asking him to become a 
 candidate for the Curatorship of 
 Smithsonian Institute (from 
 which I inferred there is 
 to be such an office, and 
 that P. [Pickering] does not care for it. 


 I am very sorry to lose 
 the specimens & drawings of 
 the fertile flowers of Cocculus. 
 Did you not have them at 
 Princeton. Please send a 
 few in your next letter. 


 I make the Manual keep 
 clear of Slavery, New Jersey,
 Penn. [Pennsylvania] (if little Delaware manumits
 perhaps I can find a corner 
 for it) Ohio, Indiana or 
 not, as the case may be,
        