
          humble merits in Botany & considered [as?] capable of filling the
station of botanist on some state survey. Should it be in
your power & agreeable to your own ideas of propriety
to recommend me to some lectureship or a curatorship in some
institution, you may consider "me in the market" Our own
Harvard (Cambridge) must make some such choice
either in a temporary lecturer or by a permanent pro-
fessor: & while I hesitate in asking of you such a
favor, yet I feel confident that a single kind
word of interference in my behalf would avail
much with the corporation of that university. You will
excuse the liberty, should I transgressed the bounds
of propriety in my delightful but too short acquaint-
ance with you, or have interfered in any way with
arrangements of your own. Feeling confident that the per-
suit of the Natural Sciences, especially Botany, is the
Field of my usefulness, I appeal to ^ [added: the] generous sympathy
of others of mertied reputation for aid.

I am happy to learn that you have announced
the publication of your Flora. I trust you will command
my services, even in the smallest matter, towards
        