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Montgomery, GA
28 June
Stephen Elliott Esq {Esquire} —
Charleston
So. Carolina
Dublin Laurens Co. June 22, 1814
My Dear Sir
I have so culpably allowed a long interval
of time to elapse prior to this acknowledgement of the
receipt of your letter that it is considerable diffidence
I now do it. I trust however to your friendly leniency
for my pardon —
The collection of plants of this clime will I fear
prove but small this season, in consequence of the excessive
drought we have been afflicted with for near seven
weeks past having limited our forests to solely the most
common and most generally differred — What collections
however I can make of such as I have not hitherto
sent you I will attend to and be assured my dear Sir
it will gratify me highly if my future gleanings can
be productive of as much novelty to you as those hither
to made —
Seeds of the shrubs styled by Dr. Muhlenberg after
yourself. I will particularly attend to getting and young
plants of it if possible shall be sent to Savannah. The dry-
ness of the season has diminished its luxuriousness of flori
-fication but has not I hope impaired its fructification.
The Cucumis I sent you I have searched for with
care but cannot find it in its former abode. Future
attempts will prove I hope more successful — I however
perfectly remember that it was many seeded, the seeds
enveloped in a pulp similar to the cultivated species —
The fruit I had gotten to put up with the specimen but
finding it turn black and corrupting was compelled
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