
          [Center: Feb. 3, 1843]

Recd. Feby 11. [Aud.?] Feby. 15.

Manchester Monmou [Monmouth?]

My Dear friend!

Your kind favor of the 12th [&?] 17th Ult.
have been duly received. The pamphlets you were so
kind to send me have also come to hand Viz. several
extracts from Sillimans Journal Notices of the Flora by
J. L. Carey?) Mon of Cuscutaneas, Biographical Sketch of D. C.
and the [Colden?] Correspondence, very good and two
Numbers of the London Lancet and several News Papers
for all these I am greatly obliged.

Your Botanical 
notices in the letters were also very acceptable.

I have not yet heard from Dr. Gray's box of roots
whether it has come to hand or not.

I was told
by a friend that one of our [Ammapolites?] who was
in the city saw the boxes kicked about in the Coal
Yard for some time, (If not unexpected certainly
undeserved treatment from the gentleman in charge.)

If Dr. Gray has received them I wish he would inform
me of the state he found them in and if any of
them have died I will try to replace them early in the
spring.

I requested you to procure me some more
type without sending you a sample of those I
have so as to suit, which I ought to have done

On the next page you will a specimen of the size
I would like a fine exclamation & interrogation points
and some more figures there are no noughts only
one 8 and one or two 5.

A few Asterisks & other
marks of [?] would be convenient  More over!
        