16 Nov 1855 [1] (seq. 528)

New York, Nov. 16th 1855

My dear friend

Yours of the 13th is before me.
Since I looked over your mss of Compos.
& found so much Latin in it, which
would require translation & rewriting
I have concluded (as many of my descrip-
tions are in Latin also) that
you had better translate my English
diagnoses. This will require less work
than to put all into English.

I will send you Monopets — (the remain-
der — except such as I have done)
illegible of Bigelow's N. Mexican Coll.

As soon as you have tinkered my
mss let me have it that I may copy

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able to leave town very soon. She
will write to Jane soon. Our Jane
would also be pleased to spend some
days in Cambridge, but she cannot be
spared until about the holidays &
even then her duties may keep her
in the city. I will tell her about
your kind invitation. Herby is very
diligent at the Free Academy & stands
pretty fair in his class. He is improving
decidedly. We have pleasant times to=
gether — as he is my bedfellow, & we
occupy his dear mother's rooms. This is
a satisfaction to both of us — though it
often makes us sad to think of the change.

Send me a note to fill up the blank
in your mss. about Baccharis n. sp.? found by
Bigelow on Bill Wms. {Bill Williams} Fork & by Emory on the
Gila. Say something & provide a
name — for it must be new.