
          Augusta, Hancock Co. Oct. 17th [AD?] 1845

My dear Sir

Your letter of Sept. 29 ult. [ultimo] is recd.  Time I supposed you 
had lost your way & I gave up hearing from you. You must have had a tedious 
journey. Did you leave the box of plants for Curtis I sent you with Dr. Knieskern? 
The other you speak of must have been the one Senca [Seneca] Austin took a few years ago, 
with some one for Buckley. Dr. Sartwell has not informed [added: me] of [added: receipt of] the bundle I sent him last 
spring by Williams. If you mean the plants you left with [added: me] numbered before you went 
South, Dr. Torrey must have recd. them, for he writes in my letter to you (& you saw it) 
"July 9th 1844, The plants came safely after a long delay, but I cannot send their names 
just now. They are (partly determined) in New York." "Recd. in Fall of 1843." 
Dr. Torrey must have got the parcel sent last Sept. (1844) by Mr. Colt as Tuckerman 
got his last spring from N.Y.  There were some I wanted to know if named right 
Phlox reptans? Stachys? Verbena spuria? [added: Gratiola, &c. &c. Among yours you have with 
you, will you ask Dr. T. if Veratrum angustifolium is named right, also Lithospermum, 
narrow leaved species, & others collected in Pike Co.; also, some I let you have, Astragalus 
brachycarpus? Hymenopappus corymbosus? &c. Dr. Kingsbury's great tonic. 
you collected in Pike Co. must be Gymnandra houghtoniana? I took another 
trip to Texas Mason Co. Ill. &  found it [added: (in fruit only, about 25 August)] abundant & several other rare things. 
I sent some few to Dr. Gray by Wm. Ireland who has gone to Andover, also the parcel to 
Oakes & one to Tuckerman. I have lots of duplicates left of several vera plants. 
Did Dr. Knieskern say anything about sending any plants to me [added: I have some laid [added: by] for him] & when? 
I want to make a few exchanges more in the U. [United] States. Would like to find 
some good botanist in St. Mary's, Ga. & in East Florida, & in S. [South] Carolina 
to exchange with. I can hear nothing from Dr. Boykin or any named 
in the Flora in any of these places. I wrote to them long ago. Also in 
Alabama & Tennessee [added: & in Mobile, Ala. [Alabama] & New Orleans]. Please give some information such as you 
can get from Dr. Torrey about botanist in these places [added: Memphis, Tenn. is any botanist?] 
You say (N.Y.?) State Flora is to be $1 a volume to N. Yorkers. when is [added: it] to be finished? 
I will write to some of my N.Y. friends to get a copy & let me have it. 
Where it is it to be had? Are the other volumes on zoology &c. put down 
in same way? Porter I suppose will send me the parcel of mosses 
& lichens &c. he put out for me to N.Y. to the Tract house. 
Mr. Bredet has some friends coming out this fall or next spring & I wrote 
to them to call at Wm. A. Mead's for all left there for me. [added: My mosses Dr. Beck sent me are now left there at po informed by letter today [18]th, 40 species.] Please write 
me as soon as [added: you] receive this letter & can answer my question or some 
of them.

Yours truly, 
Write often not wait so long. 
S.B. Mead

[in margin]
I. Catlin's note I let Mr. Kimbal have & the wrapper & left the rest of this letter 2 days before I had fairly read it.
        