
          Gray's "Elements of Botany" an excellent book for students in 
the Physiology of plants is out of print. Only [Dr.?] could be
obtained this spring in New York and Albany: and we 
are no better supplied with cheap manuals; I sent
to the publishers and to New York [added: this summer] for 30 of Beck's flora of
the North & Mid. States for a class and could not obtain a
single copy. One young man could not afford to pay [your?]
3.50 to 5$ for the large manuals; so that they were forced 
to take Mrs. Lincoln's as the only book adapted to their means.
If we could have a book, therefore, of convenient size containing
a concise & neat account of the plants of this state bound
up with it or seperate, to suit the purchaser: If such
a work could be sold (as i think it might) for the same price
or a little less than Mrs. L's; it would be just the book
we want & would take the place of all others in our
academics.
Will not you, Sir, furnish the 12000 students
in our colleges & academics in this state with such a
text. book as we need? In so doing you would
render an essential service in the dessemination [dissemination]
of a correct knowledge of this delightful science among
the youth of our state.
Will there be a set of plants furnished for
the colleges of this State?   If there [are?] any plants
growing in this vicinity that you would like I should
be most happy to send them to you.

Yours repectfully Jonathan Pearson

[Left Column]
Clematis Vesticillaris D.C.
Liriodendron tulififera L.
Berberis vulsaris L.
Solumia currhosa Raf.
Cardamine rotundifolia Micky.
Parnaforia Caroliriana Michx

[Right Column]
Claytonia Virginica L.
Claytonia Caroliniana
Nissuris Vulgaris
Mitella nud L.
Rhodendron viscodum
Kalmia glansa

        