
          Rec.d [Received] Decr [December] 15th
 And [Answered ] March 3rd 1833


 Fort Snelling
 Upper Mississippi
 Nov [November] 2 1834


 Dear Doct'r. [Doctor]


 I rec'd [received] your letter of Sept last a few days since,
 and had agreeble to the wish expressed in you former one, made
 a small collection of such flowering Plants as grow in our immediate
 vicinity, but which I am fearful will not equal your expectation
 either in number or variety, The country around us is as you are
 probably aware mostly prairies and the floweres growing on them are
 for all I know common to the same description of country elsewhere;
 constituting as if does one half of the immense regions West & South of us
 and from which you doubtless have already rec'd. [received] different collections.


 However such as they are I will send them to you by the first
 opportunity that offers, which I am fearful from the lateness of the 
 season will not occur this Fall. After this time we have but little communication 
 below except by mail. I will however be able to send them early
 in the Spring together with a box of shells that I have collected in the
 Up. [Upper] Miss. [Mississippi]. Provided you are already supply'd  with specimens of these
 last you can present them to the N.Y. Lyceum, or make such disposition of
        