
          Recd. [Received] Feby. [February] 21
Ansd. [Answered] [February] 22nd

Camp Sabine La: Jany [January] 22 1837 (Louisiania [Louisiana])

Dear Sir

Your very acceptable letter of Decr [December] 18th 1836 was received
yesterday. Your former letters to me were not received
& I sincerely regret that they were not. The one of 
Oct. 1836 was probably forwarded to Florida and it was
not then known that I had left there.

I am happy to inform you that since the time I wrote
to you I have found the box of plants from Fort Towson
in Natchitoches & that contrary to my knowledge &
contrary to the assertion of those in [added: whose] charge they were
they had been there for a length of time.
I shall therefore as soon as it may be in my power
prepare as full a collection of all my plants that
I deem that you will be interested in as the condition
of my Herbarium will admit. Of the Florida plants
I will send you the whole reserving to myself a
single specimen to each plant. I will append such
remarks as may suggest themselves together with 
the time of flowering & their location, I have made collections
of such grasses as have some under my notice & have
a number which I think are not described in any
work to which I have had had access. Of the Cyperaceae
I have not a great variety a defect which I must
as far as possible remedy the ensuing summer
The Carices are far more numerous in Louisiania [Louisiana]
than any other of the Southern [addition: State] I found them particularly
abundant on the inundated banks of Red River & also
in the Prairies of Oplousas [Opelousas]. They do not greatly
abound on the Prairies of Arkansaw. There are
many Carices among my collections made in
Connecticut in the Summer of 1831 but probaby [probably] none
        