
          Recd. July 13th

Botanischer Garten zu Hamburg
den  14 May 1838

Dear Sir!

Excuse kindly my having not allready long before
this answered to your letter dated 24th October 1836 with
postscript of the 15th March 1837, and that it was only by
Dr A. Gray, that I returned my thanks for the interesting
pamphlets and dried plants, which you had forwarded to
me together with the mentioned letter, though they did not
reach me but a long time afterwards.

The chief reason of my retarded answer is, that I was
quite unwilling to appear with void hands, and even to day
I can not yet, what I hoped to do, send the South african
Cyperaceae. I send however other plants of that Country,
partly new ones, and hope them to be wellcome.

I should be very glad to learn, that the package containing
the 6 to 10 volumes of the Linnaea, the receipt of which 
had been acknowledged by the Custom House of New York, has
been found out again and delivered to you, not even with
regard to the volumes of the Linnaea, but chiefly in 
concern of a collection of maritime Algae accompanying
them, because I would not been able to compleat them as
for a second time.

The wanting parts of the Annals of the Lyceum of Nat. [Natural]
History, which you had the kindness to promise me by Dr.
Gray, came not yet to hand, and Dr Gray tells me in a
letter

        