
          [in pencil at upper right: (c. 1850)]


 Friday Morning


 My Dear Friend


 I have just fnished
 my brief duplicate statement of
 which you spoke. There are
 few persons besides yourself, and 
 Mr Corey for whom I would take
 so much pains to expurgate myself
 from a charge which time would
 show to be groundless.


 You know I have not done this
 in any way to retain your good
 opinion for you have seen too
 much of me to suspect for a
 moment that I would return all
 Mr Coreys Kindness in looking over
 plants in my herbarium & solving difficulties,
 by an attempt to divert
 to my self plants designed for him.
 You know too that Mr Cory would have
 cheerfully given me any of Dr Chapmans
 plants which he already had in his
 herbarium & that no dishonorable course
 could have given me more plants
        