
          Rec'd 3rd [crossed out: Oct]-Nov!

Plainsfield, Massachusetts, September
10, 1834.

Dear sir, your letter of September 
8 was duly received,
and I am pleased to hear
that my little history reached
you in safety. I am pleased
also that you are still engaged
in the grasses. To confess
the truth. I have done but
little with plants this season,
having as I supposed, collected
nearly all our plants,
and not knowing that my
friends were particularly desirous 
of any more. It is now
too late to collect much; but
I will endeavor to select some
thing and forward to you
when an opportunity presents.

[handwriting in left margin: from the J.J. Crooke Collection]

        