
          exhausted I shall hope to receive the names of the plants
 in this package & of those unnamed in the last _ when
 ever you have leisure to attend to them. I send a
 plant of the duplicate specimens you have requested
 in your letters, but am not able to forward all you
 wish. You enquire whether I wish any specimens
 of some American or European plants. These would
 indeed be very acceptable particularly such as
 grow in the vicinity of N. York. [crossed out: of] which I do not
 know. Many of the common mountain plants
 I gathered a few years since at N. Haven. And if you
 think I shall ever repay you I will thank you to
 forward some. Should you direct a package to me at Deerfield
 to the care of Prof. Silliman I think I should [receive?]
 [crossed out: them] it ere long.


 The fact is with me at present and it has been so for
 two years back that I can do [crossed out: [best?]] very little but collect
 plants without making even an effort to determine
 them. I am a candidate for the congregational ministry
 and so long as I remain unsettled am compelled
 very frequently to itinerate and most generally cannot
 carry with me even an elementary work on botany. And
 in collecting cryptogamous plants among strangers I am
 obliged to use secercy [secrecy?] and caution or they could suppose
 me absolutley lunatic. But there is another obstacle in the
 way of our botanical progress in this region. We are most of us
 too poor to procure good libraries on the subject. I lately purchased
 Rees Cyclopedia and the price of it was equal to just

        