
          this is as far as the list is continuous. 
I wish I had your 
herbarium nearby for a few 
days to settle some things. I would 
like you to go over these & see if 
you have any better disposition 
to make of any of them. In 
this mere memorandum I of course 
did not put synonyms. These I 
will include when I write out the 
notes finally. Many of the specimens 
are unnumbered, in these 
cases I have quoted to the labels, 
the originals of which you have. 
Our horrid boys are all agog because 
they expect to hear the naughty Mr. 
Seward next week. This irrepressible 
man & the reprehensible Cassius 
M. [Marcellus] Clay together with the audacious 
Lovejoy are to be at Lansing & it 
is expected that 50 thousand of 
the benighted people will countenance 
the doings of this agitators 
& disorganizers. I am afraid that 
with their influences so near 
me I shall fall away from 
the true democratic faith. 
I am getting very uneasy here. I 
hear so much that is discouraging 
        