
          Recd. [Received] Apr. 2nd 
Ansd. [Answered]

Lexington, Ky. March 22d 1835

My dear Sir,

I had hoped before this time to have heard 
from you on the subject of a box of plants, which, about the 
middle of December last, was placed in the hands of your brother 
in Louisville. As he spoke of setting out in the course of
a few days from that time, on his way to New-York, and as 
he promised to take the parcel with him, I have reason to hope
that you recieved [received] it some considerable time ago. Knowing however
the pressure of your engagements during the winter, I will 
not scold you too harshly, provided you will favour me with
a few moments of the leisure which, I presume, is now on your
hands. Pray let us have your free remarks on the plants of 
our last parcels, which we have ventured to consider new or
undescribed. At the time of sending the above parcel to Louisville,
I wrote to you and informed you of it, stating at the
same time, that I had not then distributed my entire collection
of duplicates, which I was at that time engaged in, and 
promised you a farther supply when I had finished. The 
chief object of my now troubling you is to say, that I have
now made out and despatched another parcel for you.
About the first of this month a box was sent from this 
to Mr. Judah Dobson, Bookseller, Philada. [Philadelphia] containing several
packages, from Dr. Peter and myself, for various friends and
correspondents, and among them one for yourself. As this
box will probably have reached Phila. [Philadelphia] by the time you get
this it would be well to give Mr. D. [Dobson] your orders concerning

        