
          I thank you for your prompt attention to my
letter for Mr. Wright, who I hope is placed by Majr. [Major] Emory
in circumstances more favourable for the prosecution of his
favourite objects. Any one may add up columns of figures,
or carry a surveyor’s chains, but it requires a Botanist to make
proper selections and collections in a new and unknown country.
By the way, your distinguished friend, Sir William, makes some
stranger mistakes in certain Transatlantic matters, than writing
plain Mr. a Doctor, witness his laughable misnomer of “Red
Butter.”

Do you often see Mr. Carey? I had promised
myself the pleasure of hearing from [added: him,] by this time in reply
to a letter which I wrote to him about the middle of Decr. [December]

Very truly, my dear Sir, I am
Respectfully yours
C. W. Short.

I should be pleased to hear that the enclosure of this has
reached you safely.

        