
          Edgehill Princeton 10 Nov. 1845


 Dear Dr


 I am not ready to write you yet but
 what I cannot say now I will try to say when I answer
 Mr Kimballs letter wh I have not yet received. If he has not
 written hurry him off. I have not yet been able to find
 [Hallock?]. Called repeatedly. Opened his door & threw in your
 parcel. Curtis is in N.C. long ago. I will not leave any
 thing at W A. Meads it is not safe. Dr K will leave his
 parcel with me. If Dr Torrey will consent to have your
 parcels left with him it would be an excellent plan for
 you. I think he will make another attempt ^ [inserted; this week] to get his parcel
 from Wm A. M. & I will ask him to bring yours too. I am
 glad Augusta is not burned but if you talk so bad about
 mormons what will other folks do?


 Oct. was vacation. I remained a few days at Princeton spent a
 few in N.Y. & went to Cambridge. Dr Gary was absent. I stayed
 & collected plants in the Garden then went to Rochester NH &
 staid 10 days returned to Cambridge & spent 2 more with Dr
 G. He is an excellent man all botanist. He will do nothing
 to the Fl. N. A. till his Lowell Lecrtures are through Say 10 weeks
 Dr [T?] is nearly through State Fl works on it in N.Y. Will recommence
 Fl N A before winter closes & we may expect a no.
 without fail next spring. All last week I was busy with
 Phonography - I devote this week too to writing consequent on
 my change from Stenography to Ph. after wh. things will
 take their usual course. I have much leisure time as yet.
 Another ed. of Lindly is to be published in Eng. I am sorry to
 find nothing better for me yet. Am reading a new work by
 Adrien de Jussieu. For me, my Lindly that I left at the bookbinders
 for you wd be a better manual. Have you got that yet? Jussieu
 devotes 139 pages (12 mo) [duodecimo] to Orders their structures & properties.
 Gray does even less I wish I cd. see a specimen of D'Orbigny's
 Dictionaire Univ. D'Hist. Nat.' It will make 8 Vols of 768 pp. Oct.vo [octavo]
 & 192 Plates Octvo [octavo] for $30. Completed in 1848
        