
          books a little while ago. I am daily expecting part 
V. of my Icones [crossed out: filicum] plantarum. Part X of my 
Flora Bor. Am. [Boreali Americana] has been some time printed, but 
the plates are not quite finished. They shall both 
go to you as soon as possible. I would scarcely 
advise you to send any copies of your Flora for 
sale to Scotland. But I hope there will be some 
bookseller appointed in London for the sale of 
it & that will be quite sufficient. If it was a 
large sum to be taken at once I & other friends would 
gladly offer as a medium of disposing of them, 
but to get in small sums is what a regular bookseller 
or agent alone can do. I know how difficult 
it is even with regard to Gardners & Drummond's plants.
Some are 2 & 3 years before they pay. Some die & do 
not pay at all! One bookseller in London, if his 
name is announced, is quite sufficient, for all [crossed out: England] [added: Britain]
& there are a good many botanists throughout the 
country who must have it. I almost wish you 
could have got it all out at once, and I doubt if the 
sale will be satisfactory till the work be complete.
To be able to say that the work "is finished," has a great 
charm with the public.

Poor Croom! I heard of his fate from Dr. Bachman. 
I should, now that you have given me the means, 
say something about him in our Annals. Can no 
one help me to a flower of Sarracenia drumondii?

I wrote to you some 3 weeks ago. At the same time 
I sent a parcel by a vessel I saw announced for New 
York & Boston, but learning that the vessel would probably 
not go to N. York, only to Boston, I addressed the 
parcel to our friend Greene and wrote to him to forward what 
were for you. I also since I recieved [received] your letter of June
        