
          Recd [received] Febr [February] 14

Philadelphia 10th febry [February] 1834

My good friend.  Your letter of the 5th accounts for your
delay.  I was afraid that you had forgot yr [your] promis & appointmts [appointments].
I spent a week before Christmas in preparing for your visit & putting
by plants to be studied by you.  Dispairing of your coming, I began
to return to my own studies, but the grasses & Ombellis are yet
by themselves waiting for you.  The composite I have distributed
in Monographs, as I do with all G. [genera] of interest & affordg [affording] many N Sp [new species]

My doubtful G. [genera]& plants of Oregon, which I have begun to publish,
I wish to submit to Nuttall inspection, if he has time, but
he is too busy just now.  I have some plants of G. [genera] not deterd [determined] because
I do not wish to break the specimens.

I have sent you [added:lately]  N. 7 & 8 of my Journal.  N. 5 & 6 I sent you in
March, but if you did not receive them, I'll give them again.  I do
not send you my Herbar. Rafinesq [Rafinesque] (of wh. [which] 48 pages were printed last
year) to save postage, you'll get it when you come.

I would take 3 centuries of the grasses of Dr. Gray, not fastened
for $12, if he or you will take Books or Plants in payment, you
see that I have begun my Autikon Botanikon & sell fragments
or Series of it.  But I do not want Carex as I have rec'd [received] a Series
from Schweinitz in exche [exchange] for grasses, which he promised to name
but he has not as yet.  If Dr. Gray goes to the South, tell him I
will buy from him 500 Southern plants ( not growing North) at
a fair rate unlabelled or labelled & pay him in Books plants or
money.  But I am also disapd [disappointed] in S. [southern] plants.  I offered to Schweinitz to
buy 1/3 of Baldwin & he has hesitated.  Leitner has not sent me
but I have those of Elliot, Carr, etc.

Since Arnott has served me so shabily, I have doubled the price
of the plants I had prepared for him, & so will I till my plants & N. Sp.
are received.  I once offered my Shells at 25 cts [cents] & had no buyer.  I then
put them at $1 each & have sold many.  So will I do for my N [new]
plants & fossils now.  However I mean to have next April an
auction of a few on trial with some rare Bot. [botanical] books.

I have 1000 things to say &  to ask when you come.  If you fail me
again, I'll put all my plants in boxes again, as they take too much
room.  I have not yet met with a liberal learned Society in America
to whom I could give or even deposit my herbals & collections
else I would have been happy to be generous, as it is I must sell
and make them pay high, that they may value them.   I have sent
4000 specimens last year to Mexico, France, Italy, etc.  I shall send as
many this year, to thin my Herbals, & try 500 at auction here.
If you will make a bargain with me, I shall exchange with you N. [new]
plants for N [new] & rare [illegible].  I wish to talk to you abt [about] the synopsis of
our pl. you mention, to know if you will make it perfect &
        