
          New York. November 14th 1836

My dear Sir,

My time has been so much taken up, since
I received your letter, that I have not been able
to write you respecting Dr. Gray's paper. Some delay has
occured also in obtaining estimates of the engravers,
We find that it will cost too much to have the
plates copied by regular artists, the lowest (which
was for copper plates) was 120 dollars for the engraving
& printing 1250 copies. Now this will not do & we 
must have the paper without the plates, unless I
can have them done in lithography at West Point. Dr.
Gray will send om the copy at once. Mr. Daria & Mr. Herrick
will see that the botanical [?] are printed correctly.

In the mean time I will write to my friend Dr. Bailey
at West Point, who is a good botanist & draughtsman to
copy the engravings on stone, without charge. So that, if
he will do this much, the only expense will be the 
providing of paper. They have a press at the Point,
where they do work on very reasonable terms.

I have another good paper for you on a subject
allied to that of Dr. Gray's which might [follow his?] in the 
next number of the journal. It is by a friend of
        