
          funds to return East. The botany lectures will only tie me to
 one place [crossed out: 4] [inserted: 3 or 4] weeks when otherwise I would be collecting plants
 from more scattered localities. Soon after they are finished
 I intend to go to St Louis & traffic with Dr Engelmann for whatever
 St L. plants ^ [inserted: I have not & can get] taking also a package of plants from him to you & so
 with Dr Short, McMinn, & the Moravian Botanist & possibly Sullivants
 & Darlington The capitol on which I start will be my own duplicates
 a large stock of Dr Mead's (who now begins to suspect the world may
 stand a few years longer.) & whatever I find growing in the spring.
 If whatever I bring you will aid your Flora I shall be well satisfied
 But why do I come east? Because there is no room for me 
 at the west. This Presbytery cannot support the married preachers
 it contains still less let the single ones settle. I believe I am
 an acceptable preacher, I interest & can secure audiences & invitations,
 not to say importunities, for further appointments & in one
 case had $2.50 given me for traveling 50 miles & back & supplying a
 sabbath. This is the only offer of money for my services I ever received
 & that I gave away, that no Campbellite might make
 my glorying void. But I will give you my reasons more in
 full when I see you. Suffice it I am satisfied that a year at
 the East is necessary to my usefulness at the west.


 And what am I to do east? I do not know - Perhaps I
 may teach, indeed I suppose I must do so. I want to consult
 you on this point but I cannot put you in possession of the facts
 on which to base a judgement without seeing you. I will do so as soon
 as I am out of this Illinois treadmill.


 What I wish of you now is to write me, as soon as you find it
 convenient, a letter of instructions by which my labors in Illinois
 this spring & on my journey & in my stoppages (of a week at a time)
 I may be of the most services to you. I do not know whether to see
 Sullivant. It would delay me a week besides the stoppage but would
 give me a first rate chance to botanize on the Canal. It mainly depends
        