
          Providence Monday Nov. 10, 1845

My Dear Sir

By request of Doct.[Doctor] Knieskern, I send Heamden's express
a bundle of plants directed to you and have also included within
the outer envelope of this bundle a small one for you containing
a few plants of such species as you have been pleased to request
me to put one side for you and have likewise added a 
few other species which I thought you might want.

I need not write as you well know that I shall esteem
it a pleasure to send you any thing that my humble botanical
stores will permit me to, or that I will gather any
plants this way in such quantity as you may want another
season.

You can faintly appreciate how encouraging to me has been
the [?] that you have so kindly given me and I would
remain as I have been

Your obliged friend
S.T. Olney

PS. The spikes of the Eleocharis equistoides contain but few sides they are
tho[though] best that RI locality produces this season.
        