
          Monday.


 My Dear Doctor


 Thanks for your letter, enclosed to Hooker.
 I have written to Madame M G. [McGill?] at Montreal. 


 Please ask Hastings to make himself extensively 
 useful by sending on the package [crossed out: by] from Hamburgh
 he advised, the parcels from Hooker, and those I 
 last wrote to Mr. Wiley for. 


 I have a painful swollen face, the first 
 time this season, but am at work.


 It seems a little odd that Maria Hooker 
 should have married a Presbyterian Domine, though 
 I dare say she has done very well. I shall
 hope to see them in the Spring. 


 I did not suppose the extract about Wikstrom 
 applied to you in particular, but thought you 
 might possibly come in for a share


 I have gone to posting up the supplementary 
 Compositae, slow work. 


 There is a new & very fine Vernonia from Texas. 
 Pectis ciliaris from Key West, & 3 Pecti and two new 
 subgenera (equivalent in Value to Pectidopsis) from Calif,
 Coulter. A new sp. [species] (& subgenus) of Ageratum from Texas,
        