
          College Mon. Morn 5 June 1848


 Dear Doctor


 There certainly must be, as you suggest,
 some mistake about that Flora _ but it is not so easy to say what.
 There are here two unopened packages endorsed Flora - Complete _
 Besides these, which have nothing to do with our present matter
 you sent me two bundles _ one endorsed Flora Vol 2 wants Sig. 2.
 This I believe is new _ I see no trace of use. The other I thought till this
 moment to be entirely plates. It proves to be Vol 1 Text complete
 plates (proofs) deficient perhaps half a dozen. The third package is
 from Dr Gray the Vol 2 which was sent you in sheets by mail.
 You recollect they stopped sending as soon as you returned the last
 proof but a stray proof in my possession made up the deficiency
 in the body of the work - No explanations to plates no index
 except 4 pages of proof sent me.


 I have been going over my Carices on Friday & Sat. I have only
 about half of them but among the missing are some of the most
 common ones. I have more hopes of understanding the carices than
 the grasses. Indeed I must go to dissecting the grasses or I shall
 never know one of them except Cenchus.


 A fortnight from to-day closes my course at the Coll. of Ph. When
 may our visit to K take place? Will you come by N.Y? Will it
 be on Thursday? I am looking for our walk from Hoboken to come
 off one of these days, may not that be in a week or two?


 Your note by Mrs T. brought great joy to me. I knew that
 the Spirit was dealing with H., but I did not know that even he
 himself knew what was doing. Yesterday was a joyful day to me. Good
 Mrs. Browne was there with all her family except her babes & her
 husband who kept house on the occasion. Not only do I rejoice with
 H. but I joy also in your joy. I hope other similar opportunities of
 congratulating you till you have rejoiced over the last of your family.


 I am a little embarrassed in selecting illustrations
 for your first six lectures. I will send a large portion
 of the whole _ More than half I think. As this includes those which
 I used first it may be all you wish. I will at the next opportunity
 send a large part of the remainder I fear very much lest
 I may keep back some that you will want.


 Many thoughts occur to me on reading what you say of Prof. Gray.
 Will there not be an opening for me there? I want a post that I can
 rise from one which will be in its very nature an apprenticeship.
 I shall be 36 in August & with strong desires for domestic
 life & an earnest longing for a home of my own I find myself
 apparently as far from any rational prospect of settlement as
 years ago. Am I to circulate in an eddy all my life? I hope not.
 The fear of it however has troubled me not a little.

        