
          Ipswich, April 20, 1830

Dear Sir,

I recd.[received] the bundle of plants a few months ago (last
winter) & your [added: letter] a week or two ago in due course by
mail.

Inclosed in this letter are a ten & a five dollar
bill, the latter of which you will oblige me by paying
over in my name for the past numbers & in advance
for the Annals of the N.Y. Lyceum. When 
in N. York at the time I visited you, Ipaid
Carrill $5.00 on the Lyceum, so that I am now
in debt for some numbers & have not recd.[received] some
of the last. Accompanying this letter I have sent
4 numbers of the Lyceum [crossed out: for the} (Which I will
thank you to deliver to the proper person) which I
formerly recd.[received} in Boston as written in the inside of
the inclosing cover. I write this in great haste &
mean to write again in 2 or 3 weeks. The gentlemen
who delivers this (Mr. {crossed out: ?] [added: Farrington]) will return to
Ipswich & will take charge of any plants you
may have to send me. My old list remains
pretty much as it was, except those sent to me by you.

Yours truly,
W Oakes

P.S. [crossed out: P.S. If Decandollis][added: P.S. If DeCadollis Theorie sceerntarine]
[crossed out: Theorie elementarie ?] can
be procured in New York (The 2 vols.) I should be glad
to have you get it & send
it [to] me.  WOakes

        