
          with him he asked me if I had 
heard from you, since I spoke to 
him concerning your service you performed 
for him. I had a desire to know 
what his views were concerning his 
personal obligations to you. I discovered 
indirectly that he feels bound 
to pay you whether he gets it from 
the town or not. He hopes however 
to obtain it when the board of 
freeholders meet. You may keep 
the plants until I call for them 
if you please. I found 
Rhynchospora cymosa the next day 
after I wrote to you in the very 
place that you have since
pointed out; and I have also found 
it in the same swamp where the 
Lygodium grows. I wish to send 
you some asters and Solidagoes that 
I have collected here but they 
are not in order to send now. I will 
try to send them before you leave 
Princeton. I hope I shall enjoy 
the pleasure of witnessing the powers 
of your new microscope. When 
I sent my order to New York for the 
French books W. [Wiley] & Putnam had one 
of them on hand which my bookseller 
        