(seq. 5)

Stateburg March 17th

Dear Sir,

I have just heard that
Judge James Servant will set out for
Charleston in the morning & being called
off from home shall necessarily have
to postpone some things, which I intended
to speak of to you, until another opportunity.
I had given the copy of the proposals which
you sent me first, — to a friend in Camd[e]n
before I received the last — There are s[ev]eral
other gentlemen both in this neighbo[rh]ood
& in Camden who will subscribe to Mr.
Elliott's work whose names I will get
& send you the list next month —

I have never as yet visited those
situations near Manchester where the
Kalmia grows so abundantly — The
only species of this plant which I have
met with are the latifolia & augustifolia —
May it not be possible that the species
which has been described to you may be
the cuneata of Michaux — "corolla albida fundo