
          Hightstown Mar. 25/45

Dr. Sr [Dear Sir]!

Yours just came to me in due 
season, and I now tender my thanks 
for your kindness. I have not 
had time yet to try any experiments 
on the ink [crossed out: yet].

A friend of mine bro't [brought] me a 
few specimens of a small 
plant, a specimen of which 
I enclose. It was in the same 
state when I rec'd [received] it that it 
now is, and I was unable to decide
it. Some time last summer 
I sent you a few specimens 
to determine, which I have never 
received again. I requested 
you at the time to keep them 
until I called for them, and 
when I did call, you was absent 
and I did not get them. I 
spoke of them when I saw 
you in the city but you did 
not then recollect any thing about 
the matter, and I suppose they 
had been mislaid. Hoping when 
you returned you would cross them
        