
          N York 29 May 1848


 Dear Doctor


 I am sorry & ashamed to have
 on hand 4 unanswered letters of yours & sorry
 to answer them all by one brief note but I am
 doubtful as to the space in H's letter & more than
 doubtful of my time & strength. First of these
 in date - not in reception is that of 13 inst.
 Engelmanns pamphlet much surprised me. What
 a form to publish half a hundred new species
 in! It sees to me scarcely above a common
 newspaper. The Dutch 4to [quarto] I have not seen. I have
 not seen Trecul since. The "pharmacy boys" are a
 miscellaneous sect but there are no druggists
 clerks among them. I am not doing too much
 for them. I am going over the plates of Grass genera
 with them & poor K. must yet wait a week before
 his kind friend will transmit his sheets to him.
 He has not written me since his removal not even to
 thank me for the Manual. It seems he might have
 written by his son who called for it. I would like
 of all things to "take up some tribe of plants etc."
 but it would necessarily be with much assistance
 from you & a tribe of your selection. But why
 not the growth of exagenous bark? I doubt whether
 it is understood. I do not find it in Gray. In Jussieu
 it is not clear. [Gandichoud?] may have
 [the following line is a continuation of the bottom line of the 4th image of this series of letter pages: N. Y. State work in his presence!!]


 [crosswise in the left margin:
 I may (with difficulty meet you in the pines in a
 few weeks. I am delighted with your news from K.
 If you go through N York use my press down there.] 
        