
          But [crossed out:as] he apprehends some difficulty & rightly as we have few
vessels going to Glasgow direct, and says he has written to his old
friend Dr. Benj [Benjamin] D. Greene of Boston to manage it for him.  Write me &
pay me the money if needful, but he has not written me.

Now since you are going to England & Glasgow to see Hooker's
Herbarium I have thought you could manage the thing
better than Dr. Greene.  I would prepare the collection at leasure [leisure]
this winter, and deliver them to you with my Dft [draft] on Dr. Arnott.
You shall want funds in England & this may be part of them.
You may arrange the exchange as you please, you will have the
plants as security & they may amuse you during the passage
if you chose to look at them & study them.  I am not sure to
be able to make all the 600 specimens 9in good order) but
whatever the number shall be I'll draw for at the agreed
rate, & I shall besides maek a present to Dr. Arnott of several
of my works.  He says, I expect that the specimens be
perfect, well named & in good condition.  This I promise to
do so far as I can.  The Sp [specimens] shall not be such small ones as I
incd [inclosed] to show you [added:made] portable, but good or chose ones, even some
shall be of extra size.  But you are aware I cannot have the roots
of perennial plants, & sometimes the fruit cannot be added if
not found in Season.  They shall all be named, except many
grasses, but then [crossed out:they] [added:there] may new ones among them.  And besides
the plants shall have ample notes on locality & observa
made when fresh, some synonyms, etc.

If this will do, please to apprise me that I may begin [crossed out:my]
the labor.  I shall have to go over the whole of my Herbarium
and put up, write note, etc - it will take me one month of hard
labor, but I shall do it gradually & let them be ready for you
in February next.  When youmay remit the Amt [amount] when I shall
send the Invoice, or let me draw on you.  If this arrangemt [arrangement] is
practicable you will oblige me as well as Dr. Arnott.

Your list of names has offered some new ones for my journal.
I wish you would send me another list.  I had sent theJ [journal]
in N.Y. to Cooper, A Kerby, J. V. Rensalaer, Halsey, M'Neil,
Griscom, etc, but not one has paid for it yet.  I find it very difficult
to collect the small sum of $1.  I must contrive for next
year some plan to continue the Journal and be paid for it.  I shall
[illegible] something this year, but I expected it.  Pray tell y [your] frineds
to pay me or to Carvill that small amt [amount] else I shall withhold N [number] 4.

could you take to Engl [England] for me 6 copies of my MW [Midwest] floras, Journal
& other pamphlets & exchange them for books for me?  Or sell them to
a Bookseller who will send Books in exchange.

Your friend

C. S. Rafinesque

        