RKBP-603

Chicago, Box 817 - Apl 27-/59 Dear Sirs Please to send me (if you can in the course of this week free of expences) 1 doz Catawba and 1 doz Isabella Grapes & 6 Baltimore Belle Roses, if you think you shall have no opportunity of delivering them free at No 121 South Water Street, please to send as soon after you receive this as possible and write me by what conveyance, that I may apply for them, you can add also 2 Yellow Gage plums I find nothing more in your list that I want at present. I am glad to find that Bob is under such good patronage, he well deserves it, and in his particular branch of natural history, will not be behind the foremost in a few years; Hope while catching flies and snakes that he will not overlook the Flora of those Northern regions with [illegible: conifers?] to [illegible] I am [illegible: Dear Sirs?] Truly Yours Jared Brookes

[envelope postmark over torn three cent brown "George Washington" postage stamp: Chicago Ill. APR 28 1859] Mess'rs Kennicott Grove Nursery West Northfield Cook Co Ill [up left margin: Brooks]