
          Recd. Augt. [Received August] 19 
Ansd. [answered] 19th

Lexington, K. August 11th, 1835.

My dear Sir,

Since writing to you in the early part of Spring, 
I have been favoured by your two communications of April 4th 
and June 17th, the former containing some remarks on the first 
parcel of plants, chiefly Gramineae, sent to you this Spring, the 
letter from Princeton by my townsman Mr. Burrowes. I hope that 
I shall soon now be gratified by your further observations on 
the plants of the second parcel which you have recd. [received] through 
Mr. Dobson, as your labours in Princeton must by this time have 
ended. And I look with no small degree of anxiety for the 
promised parcel of plants from you. You may remember that 
a year or two ago I sent you a formidable list of desiderata 
from your Compendium; the most of these are still needed by me 
and many of them would be highly acceptable.

I have not been idle this season, but as usual have 
made very considerable collections, and among them a number 
which I had not before known as Kentucky plants. It was 
early in the season by fixed determination to have visited Arkansas 
and Illinois, with reference exclusively to an examination & 
collection of their plants; the bad health of one of my children 
has prevented this, and compelled me to restrict my searches to 
narrower bounds; and perhaps I should not regret this curtailment 
of my wanderings since it has made me acquainted with denizens 
of my own country, which I might have missed in my visit 
to strangers.
        