
          Drt [Doctor?] Curtis  writes he has procured for me ["Parks?] Flora &  [?] minor
works" - I have lately got the loan of the annals of the N.Y. Lyceum
containing monographs of the Carices & the Cypheraceae which I
find of very great [?] to me - I would be glad you could
have the annals sent to me in the spring & if they take subscribers
for them have my name placed as one - Herewith is a draft
for $400 which you will please forward to Dct [Doctor] Gray for the
purchase of the [two?] Microscopes you mention &  such books etc. as
you & he may think servicable - as to the language they are 
written in - after our own I prefer the Latin - French I read
indifferently - of the other modern languages I know nothing -
I am much surprised there are so few subscribers to
the new Flora - it must not fail, some plan must
contrived to carry it through - I am authorized to send
you the names of Mary Ann Aldritch & Lyne Starling [gr?] as
        