
          Near Louisville, Ky. Feb. 26th 1853

My dear Sir,

I received some weeks ago a long letter 
from our poor friend Brogenhard [Bogenhard], full of expressions of the 
deepest gratitude for the little favour which, through your 
instrumentality, I had the happiness to render him; for to help 
a deserving man in distress must always be a happiness. 
I have written him a few lines in reply to his communication 
but as his letter bears the New-York post mark I am at a loss 
whether to address it to that city or to Williamsburg. I have therefore 
taken the liberty of enclosing it to you, and will thank 
you to give it the proper direction for reaching him. He 
gives his habitat "Graham Avenue, next to corner of Stagg Str." 
but whether New York or Williamsburg he does not say.

I suppose that by this time we may without any 
charge of precipitate judgment come to the conclusion that our 
other eleemosynary is not so deserving, or that he better 
deserve incarceration in your "Tombs" or one of our western county 
jails, for having so disgraced the name of Botanist and that too 
of a "Swedish botanist"! I have heard not one word further 
from any source in relation to him than that contained in Dr. 
Hardy's last letter to you, which you sent me; and am quite 
curious to know what you have heard about him from Europe, 
or whether the trunk which he left with you has thrown any
        