
          Do not forget to inform me of your plans of the
proposed enterprise soon that I may arrange my domestic
concerns in the best manner possible and improve every
opportunity to prepare myself for the undertaking.

I would be glad to learn from Dr. Gray where the
localities of Collinsia verna Carex flava C. Davisii & C. leucoglochin
& Trollius laxus in the vicinity of Utica. I once found Collinsonia verna
on the south east side of a good (little lake) 1 1/2 mile below Utica on the
north side of the Mohawk below Hubbells Bend, and Carex Davisii near
upper Mohawk Bridge say 80 rods up the river on the Deerfield side
also at Great Bend about a mile above.

Carex flava I have never
found. Trollius laxus I have sought for in vain. Carex leucoglochin 
I have only fouhnd in Essex Co. last July and that sparingly on a
beaver meadow. Carex cordorrhiza & livida I find abundantly in
a sphagnum swamp near Oriskany.

I also found Carex blepharophora
in Essex Co. near Weatherhead's. It is also very abundant at
Fort Bull on Wood Duck Creek 3 miles west of Rome Village.

Information of any other interesting localities of rare plants would
be thankfully received.
Should Dr. Gray visit his father this winter or at any
time when I am at Oriskany I would be glad to see him
at any hour or would be glad to meet him at any convenient
time and place in this section of the country. I would also
ask [crossed out: what] [added: how] I am to return Dr. Gray's Microscope which I borrowed
when at N. York.

My professional business has been pretty extensive since your
return to New York, but unfortunately for me and many others
the pressure of money matters has induced the proprietors of our
manufactories to pay their labourers only in goods. Most of
the inhabitants here are labourers in the employment of the
companies. The business of the companies is also very dull
Wool is scarce and cloths are cheap, and few sales.
        