
          Glasgow, Jany [January] 9th, 1824 [1825]

My dear Sir

I write at this time for the purpose 
of congratulating you on your appointment 
to the Military Academy at West Point, 
a piece of intelligence which I have just 
now the pleasure of learning from Mr. 
Van Renssallaer [Ransselaer]. I only hope it will 
be no impediment to the progress 
of your Flora of the Middle States. Of 
the expectations I have formed of that
book & of my ideas of the present state 
of botany in N. [North] America I have given 
some account in the last of the 2
numbers of Brewster's journal which 
I have done myself the pleasure of 
sending with this, to the Lyceum
of Nat. hist. [Natural History] of N. [New] York. I hope 
you may have seen my valued 
friend Mr. C. [Charles Sandbach] Parker of this country 
who has been botanizing most successfully
        