
          after having seen the specimens, and I hope you will
 likewise be satisfied.
 Should you send me dried plants, then I will take
 all trouble to draw them well and as soon as 
 possible & send them to you yr [your] inspection
 I cannot move to New York. I have a family
 with 5 children and live among a seperate [separate] Xtn [Christian]
 community who have been established in this
 (so called) "Indian Bush" only about 2 years
 We left Europe for no temporal motives or
 external circumstances but simply for the pure
 Xtn [Christian] faith, which has in Germany but little
 liberty of conscience.
 To show you several specimens of my work I send
 you the following
 1. a collection of German poison plants which
 I painted from nature & engraved on stone. Then [They]
 are simple & easy of course for they must be
 made very cheap for the schools in the Country
 & because [crossed out: they are] there are [added: few or] no analyses with them
 I could make them for $2 or the highest $3
 2. I know not if you, as Prof Gray, possess the
 Botanical terminology of Prof Bischoff of Heidelberg
 for which I have lithographed all the plates.
 I send you several & mention the prices for which

        