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My dear sir,
[upside down]
My dear
My dear
Received with great pleasure a few days ago your
favor of the 17 "Ult". Although mingled with concern to hear of the
accident which you mention and the consequent affection of
your eyes — I hope sincerly this inconvenience will be only tempo-
rary. I know well what love of Natural History must suffer from
defective vision, and can sympathize feelingly with them.
My eyes were never good and are now daily growing worse, yours
were so good it will be a great misfortune to have them injured.
When I took the liberty of sending you some specimens for
examination I omitted making notes simply for this reason. I had
collected them when travelling so rapidly that I had no time to ex-
amine them in a living state. My observations therefore could only
on the specimens in the state I sent them. Many of them belonged
to known genera (Helianthus, Rudbeckia, etc.) and only required
a comparison with their co-species of the others. I was uncertain
whether they might not be common in Pennsylvania, because as we
approach our mountains in Carolina & Georgia we begin generally
to approach the flora of Philadelphia. I wished therefore in the
first place to ascertain and get rid of such as were well-known
and the remainder could then be substituted to a more careful ex-
amination.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
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