
          Recd. Novd. 3rd.

N.B. I am just up from a severe [?} attack (my first
+ therefore not the easiest) which I brought from the mountains. May this be
my excuse for so insufficient and unsatisfactory a letter. I am delighted to hear
that your department of the great New York Work is soon to be out. This is a magnificant plan.
Boston 30 Oct. 1843.

Dear sir,
I was much pleased to
recieve your kind letter of the 25th which 
only reached me last evening - + hasten to
reply. I trust we shall soon hear that Dr.
Gray is once more at home and in good health.
I should be pleased to recive Mr. Buckley's
plants, if they so not much exceed the same
mentioned in your letter. The truth is I am not
yet fairly engaged in the buying business - in 
which Sr. Wm. Hooker + many other abroad, and
Mr. Greene at home have done so much; and can
hardly say I wholly like it. It is too much
like making a shop-business of Botany. It is this
& no more in Mr. Cumming's hands from all that
I heard. But I know it is not so here. 
        