
          widely, has long been a favorite object of mine.  We might
employ the natural method, or publish in loose sheets so as 
to be bound in any way.

I hope you will write me and give me some news.  Pray
tell me where you lodge in N.Y. that if I should take a 
trip there I may find you & call on you at once.

I have some intention of going to the Mts [mountains] of Pennsylvania
this summer, and perhaps call at Bethlehem
to see Mr Schweinitz.  Pray will you write to him that
I may do so, and that may serve for an introduction.

If you had called on me betimes, I could have shown you
some of my rare plants.  You have not yet seen my little
treasures as I call them; many being unic [unique] or few specimens
I keep them all to myself, till a proper time to publish.
You may form an idea of my rarities by the Monographies
of my Gentians & Heucheras in the Medical flora.
My Heuch. acerifolia is the only new spec [species] I have ventured
to figure in that work, perhaps I may publish a few
more in the 2d [2nd] volume.  I shall figure the Pterospora
for the first time.

My favorite pursuit now is to prepare for the press My 
great historical work on America.  A kind of history
of the Earth & Mankind in America not the states
but from Greenland to Magellania!  I am involved
in a labyrinth of Languages, Nations, Monuments &
traditions, from which it is a task to evolve the truth.

I wished to review your Botany, but the Quarterly
Review I found to be closed against all, except a few
favorite of the Bigot Watch.

Science is here in the hands of a few Aristocrats who
wish to be alone before the public, and keep off all competitors
by management.  I keep aloof from all their
strifes and petty intrigues, confining myself to a few
friends, and in retirement mature my great works.

Believe me truly, your friend

C.S. Rafinesque
        