
          Lexington Ky.  1st July 1820

Dear Friend

I have not heard from you for sometime past.  I hope you have
rec'd [received] my last Letters, informing you of the box sent you care of Mr.
Thomas F. Leaming of Philadelphia with plants, etc.  This letter
goes also through Mr. Atwater's politeness and free of postage
but instead I send you bymail 12 numbers of my Annals of
Nature fro England, which please withdraw & debit me 24 cents
for the postage, sending them afterwards by the first opportunity
to Mr. William Swainson of Liverpool (son of the Collector) who will
have the goodness to distribute them for me.  I advise you try all
means to begin a correspondence with that friend of mine, who is
a zealous entomologist and naturalist, he wants to exchange
American insects , etc for Engish [crossed out:and] Sicilian and Brasilian
ones.  He will perhaps write to you, but you may do the same in my
name.  Mr. Swainson is an intimate friend of mine whom I knew in
Sicily, he has since been to Brasil where he has mad many discoveries.

You have long rec'd [received] my Annals of Nature.  I sent them
by mail to all the Naturalists and Botanists of the United States
at least to such as I know, and to all the great Scientific Societies.
I have already accounts that this small pamphlet has bee well
rec'd [received] and judged rightly not by its size but its contents.  I have
ample materials for a second number, but I shall not publish
it till next January.  I propose having one out every year and 
do not doubt to find materials.

I sent you an order for some books, arrived in New York for me 
from Germany.  I have not heard of them, nor have I as yet any
positive news of the books, plants shells etc. rec'd [received] by Dr. Mitchell
from Mr. Swainson [crossed out:being] for me, being yet on their way.  This
is somewhat strange.  I hope you will do me the favor to hasten
to send all these different parcels together as directed via Philadel [Philadelphia]
I am anxious to have them having been so long in this way.
You will no doubt add something of your own to them

        