
          ansd [answered Feby 5]

Philada [Philadelphia] 15th Decr [December] 1833

My good friend.  I have rec'd [received] your letter with pleasure
& am happy to find that you are coming at last to look at
my herbarium.  But do not allow yourself to foret yr [your] appt [appointment]
as Dr. Beck who came to spend a day with me for the same purp [purpose]
last month & was picked up by somebody else & did not come.
That you may find me at once I live still at N [number] 59 North
8th Street a few doors above Arch Street, East side, next door
to a large new Presbyt [Presbyterian] Church, there is Mrs. Howell on the 
plated door.  If I am not at home when you come, leave yr [your]
card & place you put up & I will call on you on my return
home.  I do not keep house nor even board at my lodgings
else I would invite you to stay with me, so as to have you
all to myself.  But I hope you will give me 3 days or 6
sitting studies of 4 hours each from 10 to 2 o'clock &
from 6 to 10 o'clock every evening.  I have more to show
you than you are aware of - and to see all would take even
longer time; but I shall put by for you whatever is interestg [interesting]
or doubtful, nay I have begun as soon as I rec'd [received] you letter
& shall go on till you come.  I have suspended the printing
of my Herbarium & Journal in order to wait for your advices.
If you could not come now, it would be a great disappointme [disappointment]
as I mean to publish directly my Autikon Botanikon or
Self figures of rare & new plants, & wish to consult with you
on doubtful subjects.

My Herb. [herbarium] is arranged in Monographs of large Genera & families
with many suplemts [supplements] of local collections etc.  I wish you
above all to look over my grasses, Ombellis. & Amposite as
I am confident to have new things there among doubtful pl [plants]
Then on my doubtf [doubtful] plants of Oregon, Missouri, Illinois, Florida
Louisiana, Kentucky, Alleghanies, etc.

If you wish to consult the Herb [Herbarium] of Nuttall & Muhlenberg,
you may give 1 day to each, & bring your notes for plants to be
searched, they are arranged in Linnean Systems.  But I would
prefer you would give me all y [your] time & leave those Herb [Herbaria] for another
visit, to be appointed, as they are not accessible at any time, but
must suit the convene [convenience] of the keepers.

You had last Spring N. 5 & 6 of my Journal.  I do not send
you my printed Herb [Herbarium] N. Sp [new species] as you'll have it here.  I am sorry you
        