
          therefore from the public being the work for our 
publishing about the same time, or from our 
interfering with each other on this occasion, I 
see clearly that we may mutually & greatly 
benefit each other & the scientific world 
too, both in America & England.

More I am sure I need not say upon this 
subject. Your own good sense & your knowledge 
of me will convince you that I am incapable of
doing anything that would in the smallest 
degree injure your valuable labours; & if ever
you have entertained such a feeling, which 
perhaps, after all, you have not, it could only
arise from your not being fully aware of 
the nature of my plan.

Schweinitz is at Herrnhut.in Saxony. 
I have written to him to come & see me, when 
he returns on his way to America. Write
to me soon & long letter.

I have induced my bookseller to defer
my "System of Plants" till 1826, which will 
prove a great advantage to me & to my book. 
In the meanwhile I am labouring, besides 
at the Phaenogamous Plants, also at the 
mosses & you will hear soon too, at the 
        