
          Recd. Nov. 3/59
Ansd. Jany 19th 1860

Near Louisville, Ky.
October 31st 1859.

My dear Sir,

I thank you very kindly
for your obliging favour of the [blank] inst.
and have communicated what you say,
in reference to the Princeton property, to the
gentleman at whose instance I made the
enquiry of you. The price of the place appears 
to me very reasonable, but I do not
know his decision in regard to it.

Through the agency of a friend
in Washington I have lately been enabled
to procure the 2d vol. of Emory Mexican
Boundary Report; and am delighted
with your charming paper on the Botany
of that region, and with Dr. Englemann’s [Engelmann's]
account of its Cactaceae. I have only 
to regret that these invaluable documents,
could not have had the benefit of a more
critical revision by their authors, before
they passed through the press. By the aid
of your Report I have been enabled
to
        