
          Cambridge, Friday evening 


 Dear Dr. 


 I have your two 
 favors of 12th & 15. I am 
 very grateful for the nice 
 care you take of my wife. 
 You seem to have her under 
 very thorough control. 


 Cure her up fast as you 
 can, and please return 
 her, pr. [per] railway on the
 3d of May; for the 4th being 
 the 11th anniversary of our union, 
 we must not be separated then.
 "The union, it must be preserved." 


 I have got no Anthephora
 elegans, or other species, except this 
 Western thing. 


 I have not the skill to 
 copy off of the details from P. de
 B. [Palisot de Beauvois] But I send the book, 
 in parcel pr. [per] Express, and you 
 can get my wife to copy it
        