This collection consists of five letters (1855, photocopies) representing the correspondence of Lucas, Hall Town, Jefferson County, Virginia (later West Virginia), and William R. Prince (1795–1869) of the William R. Prince and Co. nursery, Flushing, Long Island. The first four letters are from Prince, concerning Lucas’s purchase of an order which “comprises so many rare species and varieties that it will require our personal attention throughout” (1 February 1855). In a letter of 12 February, Prince mentions that he is 58 years old and that with his two sons in other occupations, he is “closing up [his] business gradually”; he also expresses a hope that “the fruits that my father hunted up throughout all Creation and that I have also hunted up should not be lost and unknown to the world after I am gone.” The fifth letter (25 January) is from Lucas to Prince.