
          he may have exercised his financiering powers.
I have written to Dr. Hardy on this subject; and
I have requested Dr. H., moreover, to send to Charleston,
(care of Dr. Gibbes) the bundle of Plants which L. [Lundgren]
left at Ashville, and to request Dr. G. to forward
it to you by some safe conveyance. Will you do
me the favour to write to Dr. G. on the subject?  
Should it ever reach you I have to request the 
additional favour of you to do with this small
reclamation, what I had intended to have done
with the large and beautiful collections which I 
hoped at one time to have gotten by means of L.
from the mountains of N.C. (Michaux’s classic
“Hautes montagnes de Carolinie”) divide them
equally between yourself, Dr. Gray, Mr. Carey,
Dr. Engelmann, Mr. Sullivant and myself! But
we need not now think of taking so many bites
at this small cherry.

You have done as I should have done,
in paying the tavern bill at Ashville; but it remains
to be determined what further bills of L.'s
creation we are bound in honor or justice to pay.
        