HT. 23.] TO JOHN TORREY. 45 
Shaw, but have not yet had leisure. Please say to 
him that I am much obliged for the papers he has 
been so good as to send me. I wish to know whether 
he has yet apostatized from the anti-tea-drinking’ soci- 
ety, of which Mr. S. and myself were (“ par nobile 
fratrum’”’) such promising members. Please say to 
him that I have not yet drunk tea, but am doing pen- 
ance upon coffee, milk, and water. 
May I trouble you for the very earliest possible 
answer to this, which will much oblige 
Yours very respectfully, A. Gray. 
, Hamitron Con.eceE, June 9, 1834. 
Your letter of the 13th ult., with the bundle of 
books, was in due time teal, Yours of the 2d 
ult. was received at the same time. I can send 
you no more copies of “ Graminee,”! ete.; all I 
brought up are subscribed for and delivered. ‘ Major 
Downing ” who subscribes for two copies (one for 
himself and one for his friend the Gin’ral,? I sup- 
pose ), as well as the other subscribers, must wait until 
I am lecturing here to a small but quite intelli- 
gent Senior class, twenty-six in number, just enough to 
fill three sides of a large table, and time passes very 
pleasantly. The small fund for the support of this 
institution will, I think, be secured, but the trustees 
North American Graminee and Cyperacee, of which Part I. was 
stb in 1834, Part II. in 1835, This was the first separate and 
remarkably well selected, skillfully prepared, chitiealls studied, and 
carefully compared with gig ose in the extensive and very authentic 
herbarium of Dr. Torrey. 
. a to the then popular squib of Major Jack Downing’s 
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