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


 Friday P.M. Library


 Dear Doctor


 Hastings has that
 Texan matter in hand and
 nearly completed _ He will do
 as you suggest.


 I lack about an hour
 of being square up to the
 Cyperaceae & Gramina and
 a much dreaded job they
 will be. They may take me a
 month. Now I think of it 
        