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Sullivans Island, July 31 1815

Dear Sir,

If you have completed the perusal of the olive branch
you will oblige Mr. Gourdin by sending it to Messrs. Gaillard &
Maryck's to be conveyed to Pineville by the St Stephens'
post.

Let me repeat to you the offer of my services
as a transcriber. The heat of the weather prevents
me in a great measure from leaving the house except
in the evenings & mornings. The leisure thus afforded
I would willingly devote to copying yr. notes &c—
I feel great anxiety to see such a flora as I know is
in yr. power to give the world— I know nothing so
likely to diffuse a taste multiply the number of
the votaries of botany as such a publication. I fear nothing
is to be gained by the delay of publication, on the
contrary many obstacles may grow out of it.

Early publication will certainly enable you eventu
=ally to present us with a more exuberant
flora, by awakening enquiry, than you would
otherwise be enabled to do— The want of books,
I believe is the only reason of the want of botanists.
Have the goodness to excuse my freedom—

I am Dear Sir,
Yours with great regard
J MacBride

Genl. Pinckny has been so kind as to }
offer to offer as the means of convey-
ance to Long Island when you can }
find it convenient to visit us— }