
          Recd [received] Apr 15th 1835

Philadelphia Apr 1835

My good friend,

I have rec'd [received] your two letters, one by mail & the other along with
your specimen & pamphlets.  I must confess I was rather diaappointed
in receiving so few specimens only 15 and 2 or 3 were in the former parcel
and but 4 or 5 new to me.  I expected from you this Spring a fine collection 
or at least 100, which I could have matched.  But however I am glad
to have rec'd [received] even those few, and particularly the pretty Sabatia nana
which you call a var. [variety] of [Sabatia stellaris]! but is a Sp [species] for me.  as all var [varieties] are
Sp [species] and all Sp. [species] are varieties!  Has it the style declinate?  I could not observe
not to destroy the flower and have now 4 Sp [species] of Sab. stellaris.  Elliot Sp. is difft [different]
from any & my [Sabatia amena] or [Sabatia tricolor] of 1802 is also different.  Why not notice
& descr. [describe] the style straight or declinate, it is as essential as in Pyrola!

I hear with pleasure of your labours & am willing to help you.  I have
very few rare Cyperacea, altho' many doubtful.  I send you some again
I have none from Oregon!  have you any?  but I have 6 Carex from Mandans
collected by Bradbury in 1811, descr. by me 1817.  3 are Triplima with 3 stigm
I send them to you to revise & describe again; but you must return them as they
belong to my fasciculus of Florula Mandanensis.  They were named by me
1817 & appeared new then, one was twice descr. [described] by Nuttal in 1818.

You need not have returned my plants unless you chose, yet by that
means I have your names for the grasses earlier.  You may keep all those
I now send, whether you have them or not, except the 6 Carex from Mandans
I send you as many as 66 speciments, if you find 8 or 10 new to you, they
ought to be a treat.  Some are new, some are doubtful & put no name
to them since you dislike to see N Sp Raf. [new species Rafinesque].  but when I have studied a
Genus as you study the grasses & Cyperacea, I think I have a right to put
these marks to the results of my companions.  If you keep Sp [species] unnamed send opinion by reference to numbers?

I asked you for many plants of Northern States only, & you say they are
rare and did not send any, except Prunus obovata of Bigelow (Padus G.)
I hope you may send me many yet.  You even forgot the Gentiana angustifolia
collected for me last fall.  Add it to all your Gentians (which you can spare)
except [Gentiana saponaria] 4 G. 5 flora.  I want to see the sp. of Elliot, the [Gentiana villora]
his white fl sp. his [Gentiana acuta] which is an Erythrea but very different from
that of the North which I have called Erythrea bicolor.  Send me some Southern
plants & Alabama plants.  make out 100 specimens this month & take them
to Princeton if you can't send them sooner.  Send them to Dobson {added:(or Durand)] to him.
I leave the package for you.  He says he expects other plants from Dr. Short for you
& will add mine.  According to what I'll receive you will get other rare
things from me.  You don't say how long you will stay in Princeton, whether
you will come here awhile.  You talk no longer of going to Charleston to see
Elliot's herbal.  How can you go in the fall when sickly or winter when busy.
Nor do you say that Dr. Gray is going south as he once meant.  I wish he would
        