RKBP-195

Lisbon April 9th[underline th] 1837 Friends Kennicott As some of the articles [on strike through] which you are to send me are wanted to ship went with my shipping orders. I would like you to send them as soon as convenient If you can do so please see that they are forwarded [to erased] from Chicago otherwise send per express as before directed (ie. to me at Morris) Your grafts are put up (yesterday) and will remain in my cellar until next week when if the roads & weather will [illegible] I will send - notifying you Your order is exactly filled (with a surplus of say 200 for any poor ones which may[underline] be found) and are begin- ning to knit. I pack in old[uderline] sawdust so that they will go in good condition In haste - Very truly Yours A,B, [illegible last name]