
          [at upper left: Recd. by Goebel - Sept. '11.]


 Shark River N.J. Sept 10 - 58


 Dear Doctor


 I received your letter sent
 by the bearer Herr Geubel. According to
 your wish I pointed out to him as many
 localities for collecting plants as my professional
 & other duties would admit of. &
 even travelled with him a distance of
 not less than ninety miles probably one
 hundred. In the course of his stay with
 us we visited Manchester about 30 miles
 from here. The region is much changed
 since I left it 11 years ago. The localities
 that afforded so many interesting plants
 is now hardly worth visiting, many of the
 plants then found are exterminated, not
 by the progess of civilization, but by the
 growth of young timber cedars etc. which
 entirely crowded them out of existence.


 The late season of the year was sadly
 against us in finding many things
 that have so often delighted the enthusiastic
 collector of plants: The recent heavy
 rains too opposed a serious obstacle to
 our travelling about in the swamps &
 along ^ [inserted: streams] in as much as Herr Geubel had
 several serious paroxysms of Hydrophobia.


 But not withstanding all these untoward
 circumstances we returned with a moderate
 share of spoils from the pines.

        