
          or in better order than I could
 have obtained from quiet expectancy.
 You can see too that my intrigue
 must have been as foolish in its
 execution as in its inception,
 being betrayed by myself, entirely
 without necessity to the last
 person to whom I would have
 breathed on the subject.


 I know too that you never
 thought me a trader in plants.
 True I never have asked plants
 without offering a return, but
 on the other hand I have never asked
 a return & am incapable of doing so.


 I do confess that I have taken unusual
 pains to make my duplicates
 accessible to my friends & more
 than I would have done but
 for a hope that my own herbarium
 would be benefitted by my 
 labor but I should be too
 happy to get one plant

        