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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
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I am
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Truly Yours
Jared Brookes