
          Manchester, N.J. 30 Nov. 1843.-


 My Dear Friend!


 I have just received  a letter
 form Dr. Gray, requesting to know what disposition
 has been made of the plants for him. He fears
 that a fate similar to that of last year's may
 await the box (or rather Barrel) which I have [crossed out: collected] [inserted: sent]
 for him. - I had news this week that the
 plants had duly landed in New York at the
 Coal Depot That the captain called or sent
 word to yourself to take them away - That when
 he set sail fron N.Y. he put them into a
 warm stall until called for. Dr. Gray wished
 that his plants had been sent to Wiley &
 Putnam 161 Broadway or 39 John St. N.Y.


 I am getting my house on finely and
 hope in a week or so as to get hard at work
 at my plants. -


 I suppose you are hard at work
 at the Laboratory Teaching the young and middle [aged?]
 ideas how to shoot with the gas pistole the galvanic
 battery and a dozzen other big guns so that I can
 not hear from you. - 


 Dr. Darlington has written
 to me that he had sent a parcel for me to
 Wiley & Putnam's some time since which I have
 not yet received - Dr Engelmann wrote me
 on the 25th Aug. last that he had sent a parcel
 for me to Wiley & Putnam and I have not yet
 heard from it, though I had requested Mr. Wm Torrey
 to call & inquire for more than a month since.

        