
          I suppose your arduous labour of lecturing in the Med.
College will soon be done with for the season. And
if convenient I should be glad to drag you with me
for a week or so through our woods and swamps
to show you our Helonias dioica our Carex Barrattii
and forty more interesting plants

These may be seen
in all their glory about the first of May or a little
later.

Probably there will be something that will call
you here about that time.

I have no paper to print
labels on yet I do not wish for any more carpeting for the
present. I am obliged to curtail my expenses to procure
me some clothing my go to meeting coat is becoming too
thread bare to appear respectable and I must work to
get me another soon

My wife & children are
in no better situation in this respect. But I [doubt?]
this will not be so long.

Excuse bad grammar [?]
other defects for I have written this in great haste.
for fear that it would be too late for the mail.

Believe me very truly

Your obedient servant

P. D. Knieskern

I cannot write to Mr West
this morning & you will oblige me
if you see him to read to him the following P.S.

P.S. I received a communication from Mr. Charles E West
inquiring after a certain tube found in the town of Rome Oneida Co
I cannot answer his inquiries any farther from memory than this
that the tube was largest at the top and proportionally smaller
below the bifurcations which were many feet below the
the surface the smallest branches not larger than a 
pipe stem. The hole dug must have been about 30 feet.
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