
          She was hardly at Paris
I think in time for the Exposition
Universelle. That would
have been a sight for her. I
was there till some time beyond
the close, for I had a 
push assigned me by the imperial
commission & after
the jury business was finished
I had to [cater?] for our Museum
a brought away, or had sent
30 great cases of purchases,
or, chiefly, presents. These,
in addition to what we have
already, raises our Museum of
Vegetable products to a very
high grade, so that we are
building a very large additional
structure to contain
all our objects & make
allowance & provision for
[daily?] future additions.
        