
          discharge in kinf, for it seems hopeless
for me to contribute [crossed out: to] anything new 
to your botanical stores.
The Kew Garden ferns will be 
most acecptable, & useful as a study.
I should be most happy some time
to accept your kind invitation, to stop 
over night with you, but for the fact
that my mothers feels she has a 
laim on me, during the brief visits
that I can make in N.Y. Bt whenever
my time will permit, I shall certainly 
be glad to call on your family & 
to have a good social chat with 
you.
I finished examining & putting 
away the New Meican ferns, last
week, & must again thank you for
your kindness in contributing so many 
new & very curious species. I intended
to write you last week to acknowledge
them, but as I had te Cedar Bridge

        