
          Howard House
Recd & ansd [Received & answered] Apr. 7th 7, 1841

Troy March 5th 1841

Dear Sir:

I send a few more plants, which 
I should like the names for; and if you have leisure
please look at them. You are at liberty to retain 
all that [added: are] in the package. I have a collection of lichens
from Michigan, which I was sent to you if desired. 
Several of the plants which I know send do not appear 
in your catalogue of the state plants,  probably they
were inadvertently left out. They are Polygonum 
articulatum, Potentilla anserina, &, perhaps, a Fraxinus.

Allow me to introduce to your favorable notice, 
the bearer of this package, Dr. Newcomb, of this city.
His favorite study is conchology.

Yours truly
John Wright

Dr.  J. Torrey
        