
          Mc Donough Co 8 Aug 1843


 Dear Sir


 I learned yesterday that I should have
 an opportunity to send you some plants. So I
 have gone to work to day. & got together a mass
 of stuff chiefly for the sake of authenticating 
 specimens for my own herbarium & partly to
 give you a sort of synopsis of what is growing today
 in our vicinity. all these growing within a circle of
 a mile in diameter & many more. I have gathered
 to day like an ox - without looking to see what I was
 getting - perhaps you would say like an ass. I have
 not time to compare them with descriptions nor even
 to look out their names. I have but 3 days to dry them in
 & therefore no time to lose on examining them I
 would thank you to minute their names opposite
 to their numbers on this paper & throw it into
 your "unanswered portfolio" till you can copy it off
 in a letter to Dr Mead. [inserted: PM] [August?] to Hancock Co Ill. He will know
 my address - (you will not know it at the time you see this)
 & having an interest also in these same specimens will
 transmit a copy of your verdict to me. I mark each specimen
 with IFH. They were all gathered today in a spot which you will
 find on a sectional map of Illinois as "Section 30 of Township
 4 N 3 West of 4th principal meridian" mostly from
 low prairie land.

        