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hope that a change of air may do for it what medicine I am certain cannot— Should you be in the habit of visiting this Island, I should be extremely glad to see you. I stay at Jones's. On Monday I depart for home.
Your society which you mentioned to me— I wish well to & may propose as a member if you think proper.
I am in great haste Yours very respectfully J MacBride
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9. Oct 1813
Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire} Charleston To the care of Dr. Prioleau
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Dear Sir
To enable you to reduce to its proper genus the Gynandrous plant so many specimens of which I sent you last fall I have rudely tho' correctly sketched from nature the essential parts of the flower. The plant is enlarged 1/2. The whole flower is a pale green with streaks of deeper green. The calyx external & the stalk with the peduncles are "downy" (not tomentose) The ala of the nectary have a circle of deep green—
The mountain species is evid- ently reducible to the same genus— I should say the genus was Cymbidium but I can't see how Limodorum tuberosum & those plants can do well together— Do inform me if you succeed in reducing them to the proper genus.
I am dear sir, Yours very sincerely
Pine Ville Oct. 14th 1813
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Without date inclo: Sing a drawing of Cranichis.
Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire}
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3. Nov 1813
Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire} Charleston. To the care of Theo. Gaillard Esq.
Pine Ville, Nov. 3 1813
Dear Sir,
Your favour of the 16th alt. came only to hand. I feel much in debted to you for your friendly solicitude for the restoration of my health & sympathy for my late misfortune.
On Monday last I embraced an opportunity by Artope's boat of sending you a box containing seome specimens of moutain plants & shells from the adjacent calcareous stratum. The box was directed to the care of Chisolm & Taylor & I hope you have already rec. it.
For the poverty of my collection & the bad state of preservation in which you will find the specimens I offer as an excuse the bad state of my health & the almost constant dejection of spirits which I suffered during the whole of my tour. I passed over all the ranges of mountains between N. Carolina & Tennessee in August then entered our state in the district of Greenville, & reached the Savannah river late in Sept. by a course paral =lel to the mountains & not very distant from them.
The prospect of botanical gratification from such a route would under other circumstances have created in me the liveliest pleasure, but unfortu =nately I was during the greatest part of the journey almost incapable of any species of enjoyment. The season of the year too was unfavorable. I found very few plants in flower. Your company would have done more for me than all the mineral waters I drank. I met with no one who took any interest in botany & this circumstance in all probability dampened my ardour for the pursuit. I was probably unfortunate in reaching the warm springs so late for Mr. LeConte left them on the day of my arrival. To a mineralogist this route would have proved interesting. The Swanano=gap [Swannanoa Gap] the Blue Ridge & the chains apparently formed by the French Broad afforded a profile view of the strata of the mountains & their disposition.
Had I attended to the catalogue of your