
          Freehold 7 July 1851


 Dear Doctor


 Recollecting
 that I have some enclosures
 I have curtailed my sheet
 so as to barely bring the date
 on the right page. I have had
 a broken home for the last
 month. On my Xerophyllum expedition
 I seriously injured
 my knee and till to-day I have been
 a cripple. I heard all my recitations -
 wrote what I must but
 exchanged Botany for general
 reading & History. It has made
 a serious break in my Graminology
 just when I concluded that
 Spartina cynosuroides & Polystachya
 are either 4 species or one.
 I expect to resume tomorrow.


 My lameness spoilt a visit to
 N York also. Friday I could not
 locomote, after seeing Browne
 & spending a night with my
        