
          Rec'd July 1811
And. Aug. 24th                                                                       Cheyneville June 17th 1839
wrote again Apr. 21 1841

Dear Sir,
Though I have not the pleasure of being
personally acquainted with you, yet being engaged in similar
[p?] with youself I trust you will pardon my freedom
in this introducing myself to your notice as a brother botanist,
whose name you may perhaps have heard from our late much
[lamented?] friend the Revd L de Schweinitz.
I am at present [?] nearly in the center of  Louisiana, &
I shall probably remain throughout the season & autumn.
Though I have lived in the U. States now for upwards of 20
years, this is the first time that I have been further south than
Virginia. A residence [?] short in the South I have long
desired, in order to pursue my botanical researchers in this
quarter, which indeed affords me inexpressable delight, more
particularly as my labours thus far have been [?]
[?]. This section of the country I should suppose
must have been rarely visited by botanists, or so large a
number of [?] beautiful & conspicuous plants could hardly
have escaped notice. Scarcely a day passes in which I have
not the good fortune to [?] with some species not described
in the books. Contrary to my most sanguine expectation I 
have found, already some new Genera which I am confident
are dividedly unknown, & a number which I suppose to be so.
-whether I am mistaken or not I shall have you to
divide. Permit and [?] to assure you that as a botanist
of the manufacturing order I am in no way allied to our
[friend?] R. which you perhaps begin to suspect I am from
my speaking so largely and so confidently of my discoveries.
        