
          I get no botanical news of any description - I looked
 for acorns of Quercus phellos & Q. [faleata?] a short time 
 since but found none; birds and small quadrupeds
 had been at work & left none for me


 I have found only one solitary sound acorn
 and cup of Quercus [fultata?] which you are welcome
 to if you have none. -


 What prospect for labels - I shall need
 many hundred for all my specimens and would
 like them as soon as practicable


 Believe me very truly yours


 P.D.Knieskern


 I have just recieved a letter from Geo. Vasey
 the medical course at Pittsfield is about to
 close (only 14 weeks I believe) It is much to be regretted
 that better opportunities for a Collegiate
 education could not be enjoyed by my friend
 Vasey. His character as an honest, a studious and
 a candid young man, and a lover of the whole round
 of sciences, and needs only a little stimulus to excel
 in my department - Besides being a strictly moral man
 he has every appearance of a sincere and devoted christian
 His instention I believe is to engage in teaching during
 the Winter season & attend to the study of medicine
 next Summer & attend another course of lectures 
        