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9 Ind' June 9th '67 Dear friend Mrs Carr I have been looking over your letters am sorry to that so many of them are
uncons illegible , My debt to you has been increasing very rapidly of late I dont think it can ever be paid, I am not well
enough to work, I cannot sit still, I have been reading botanizing for some weeks, find that for such work I am not very much
disabled, I leave this city for home tomorrow accompanied by Merrill Moores, a little friend of mine eleven years of age,
we will go to Decatur Ill'. thence northward through the wide prairies botanizing a