
          not to have done, you have so
much [crossed out: busieness] business of your 
own & of the public to look after) 
you a letter of Grisebach asking 
you to show it to Westermann
and ascertain if he was willing
on its authority to let me have 
a few copies of Grisebachs Cat.
Pl. Cub. [Catalogus plantarum Cubensium]. I hope the letter is not 
lost. Since I wrote by Mr. Roezl
I sent you a little Choris to 
which you do not allude. But 
you may not have had time to 
think of it.

We send today a box of seeds to 
Washington. A while back came 
a box of Australian plants and 
with them some great packages 
of seeds of Acacea [Acacia?] [lopharilla?] which 
grows (so says Baird) as fast as a 
corn stalk. They came in package, 
        