
          Oriskany Oneida Co Feb 15th 1838

Dear Sir

I regret that I did not recieve notice before
the canal closed last fall where I was to send the specimens
& sections of wood I collected last season, for I suppose
that if you had them this winter you would probably
make use of them as also the notices of the localities
habits & time of flowering etc. of which I took notes
during my Botanical excursions of last year.

I wrote some time last Fall requesting to know what
I should do with the collection made by your request
also what I should do with the extra specimens
which you proposed sending abroad, but from
the circumstances of not receiving any answer supposed
that you were abroad or that you did not receive
it in time to have them sent. I should
be glad of your advice what should be done
and how those specimens that are to be sent
abroad should be prepared & put up whether
in separate packages each labeled separately
or whether it would answer to label only one
of each species etc.

You mentioned to me at
one time last season that you thought you could
make a different arrangement so as to make it
more advantageous both to yourself & me. If
any such arrangement can be made I shall be
very happy to learn what it is that I may make
the necessary proparation & shape my domestic affairs
accordingly.

I think favorably of the
plan of collecting & sending specimens abroad
as Mr. Drummond did, provided you can assist
me in finding places to [added: send &] dispose of them without
putting yourself to too much trouble or
loss of time.

This plan might if practicable be
pursued [added: at the same time] and afford some additional means of making
it an object, of pecuniary advantages.

At the same
time I might do a little something at giving instructions,
on Botany if time would permit during
the season of collecting specimens.
        