
          from your hands, many of which I have already been favoured
with.

My time during the spring summer & fall for the
last few years and during the present season has been very
busily engaged in the collection and preservation of the
plants of Kentucky, of which I sent to different correspondents
in Europe and America during the past winter
about five thousand specimens. It is my present 
purpose to examine during the remainder of this year some
quarters of this country which I have not yet seen as the
west & dry prairies of Ohio, which I am told are especially
rich in autumnal Compositae. Are there
any of these in which you are particularly 
interested?

By a pamphlet which I recieved some 
time since from New-York I was informed of your
resignation in the University of New York and regretted
exceedingly the train of circumstances which compelled you
to that step.

Sometime in the spring I heard by a letter from Mr .
J. [Jean] Manesca, French teacher, 20 Reed Street, N.Y. that a
parcel of plants from M.  [C.-F. Brisseau of] Mirbel had been left with him
for me. I immediately desired Mr. Manesca to deposit them
with Mr. Leavitt merchant of yr [your] city, with a request 
for Mr. Berryman, of that house, to forward them on to his
        