
          Arctic duplicates, I will certainly do so: but I 
am sadly at a loss for Mrs. Hooker's services. She 
has been confined by illness more than 3 months
to her bed & she has been my most useful amanuensis
on all these occasions. She has not 
given birth to another child; but is so weak & 
feeble that it must be long before she is restored 
to her family. When she is, I will see 
what I can do for you among Carices, though
I fear I have but few duplicates at this time. 
Some Nepal ones, I think I have, &, if so, they 
shall be yours, & anything else that may be 
in my power to send you.

I am constantly working on my System of 
Plants & shall make frequent use, I assure you, of 
your excellent Flora. I hope 2d part is
in the present parcel, for I have never yet recieved [received] 
it. I am well acquainted too, with the papers 
in your American journals on botany. Elliott's
book I also have & some of his good plants from 
himself. I hope you will be able to get plants 
from the more inland parts of N. [North] America, & especially 
from the country to the westward of 
the Mississippi. Tell me if there are any hopes 
of getting plants from there. I have now a good 
lot of plants from Nuttall, like yours, still in the 
        