
          Whether you can procure me a birth of not
I intend to collect plants largely in this vicinity
if I remain here, if not I shall attend to it
wherever I may be located as much as may
be in my power & whatever of interest may
come within my reach. If you please
give me timely notice of what you may
require I will try to get those things which
were past the flowering time last spring when
I commenced collecting

Your etc.

P D Kniesken
        