
          My health is not good yet.
 I have not redeemed the time I wasted
 on that inaugural that nobody
 took the trouble to hear.


 I have made no drawings
 since. I shall make one to-day
 perhaps of seeds entirely, mostly
 taken from that invaluable "Genera'.
 I have engaged or nearly engaged 4
 copies of it without trying, merely
 expressing one half of my exhuberance
 of delight at it.


 All seems to go well at Made [Madame?]
 Chengarays - & at the Pharmacy where
 'we a lonely band' gather round
 a table & talk it out together. It
 will yield me $32 perhaps more.


 I go through my herbarium very
 slowly having only finished Poa


 Will you ask Mr Evans to tell
 me the whereabouts of my tin pail.
 I have a faint recollection of lending
 it to him for a refrigerator of Artificial
 Camphor & for some other
 purpose - & I have not seen it
 since. I cannot well do without
 it - The cover was left in the

        