
          Manchester N.J. Jan. 5th 1843

My Dear Friend.

Your kind letter of the 31st reached
me on the same day with the box of printing
ink and the package of German Tracts and
other pamphlets, very acceptable. I was not
a little disappointed when I learned that you
were not coming down this time but your
reasons were satisfactory, and if we all live
I shall be very happy to see you here next
Spring or Summer when I hope you will
be able to stay a little longer than you
did last year.

You request me very kindly
to let you know all my wants. I do not know
that I have any that are pressing; I would
like to have the names of those queer
Carices that are found here of which I
sent you numbered duplicates and some
other plants I wish to prepare labels for them
as soon as convenient.

There is a probability that I may be in
N. York in a few weeks. Mr. Wm Torrey
thinks he may need my testimony in the
locomotive cause which is expected to come
on soon but perhaps not before your course
of lectures will have closed for the season.

If consistent I wish you would subscribe
for a [added: cheap] weekly newspaper and send to this 

        