
          was his, etc.  Thus mine will be mine also.  What I have seen or
collected from 1802 to 1836! in 24 years travels.  Who can boast of
so much, except perhaps Nuttal?

Your parcel of Gentians was too large to be sent & thus I cannot
get them yet.  It is is so with one Genus, how would it be with the 50
genera I want to investigate well, having doubled them already?  Even
if i should go to N. Yk [New York] & found you there or at leisure it would take me
a month... We must then do as well as we can.  The best way
would be to send me all your duplicates of doubtful or southern plants
(not grasses) for my comparison, and I would exchange them with
mine such or return them after my Monographs are ended.
You say you have a couple of Bushels of speciments lik my Mandan
Conices which you want to be relieved of.  Send them to me, & it
shall be done, but let each spec. [specimen] have the genus settled at least.
All these you might send in a Box, by Canal line or Railroad.

I am not aware that any of the parcels sent me & advised of
have been lost.  I gave you acct [account] of reception of 3 all small, including
the last of Texas.  But you say nothing of my fine parcel of plants
from the Cedar hills of Pinebarrens, includg [including] Gentiana trachiloma
unless you have mislaid the whole like former rubish [rubbish] as you call it.

How is it that you have not N [number] 6 of Atlantic J. [Journal] with my N.G. Pesa
radena or Euphorbia poinsetia? [Euphorbia poinsettii] all the 8 N.G. were sent to you but
you neglect loose articles.  I'll send you again N 6 & the N. of fl. Tex
for Hoocker, or rather a whole bound set of Journal.

You will receive by mail 6 copies of N. 3 of my Bulletin for
distribution.  Also by some private opportunity the 1st volume of 
My History of American Nations, 2d My life [crossed out:and] travels & researches
3d Sustability of the World.  All to be published this Spring.

A prolific season for me you will say.  My American Nations
will be periodical, 2 to 4 volumes yearly, it shall be my principal
work.  Botany is now only amusement, an delight of my youth.
The work on Sustability (not Irritability) is the epitome of
my Philosophy & religious creed of Universal Love for God
& Mankind.  The worship of Spirit and truth in Love & peace
to all.  Universal tolerance and benevolence.  I hope you
are not too strict a Calvinist to dislike this philosophy [crossed out: and to] [added:let us]
refer to the bible in all caps where available; but in the original
OBR [hebrew} text without points, instead of our common translation
MSHE (Moses) & Geology, nat sciences etc agree much better than we
are aware.  If we read Moses as he wrote no as [crossed out:we translate oft]
he has been so often badly translated.
        