
          I wrote to you on the 15th. inst. [instant], and
enclosed a check on the Bank of Penna. [Pennsylvania] for
$52 to be applied, according to your discretion
for the relief of another German naturalist,
whose name I do not remember. I 
hope you received the remittance.

Your labours for the winter I suppose
are about to commence, but I hope
that amidst the jingle of jars and the fumes
of gases, you will not loose sight altogether
of Botany. I have just had the pleasure
of looking over your report on Stansbury’s
Plants. I have never seen a memoir which
I think you told me more than two years
ago that you were preparing for Fremont’s
last Expedition. Can you tell me how I 
shall obtain [crossed out: ed] it? When may we look
for the completion of the 2d. vol of the
Flora.

Miss Gulick showed me in her garden
a small (Hydrophyllaceous?) plant which she
said was obtained from the “Pines” of N.J.
It differs from anything of the kind I have
and

        