
          D.T. L. Andrews


 Monterey Cal. [California] Sept. [September] 5, 1850


 Dear Sir


 Being desirous of procuring a
 few articles of apparatus from your city & having
 no friend residing there, to whom I can trust their
 selection, I take the liberty of requesting you to oblige
 me in the matter. If you regard the liberty thus taken
 unwarrantable, or have no time to [crossed out: illegible] attend to the business,
 please hand the letter, with the draft, to Mr. 
 James Green - No. 422 Broadway, & request him to 
 fill the order.


 Having no catalogue but B. Pike's, I annex the
 prices therein contained, to the instruments, presuming
 that they do not differ materially from the prices at
 other establishments. The figures preceding the name
 of the instrument have also reference to this catalogue.


 736. 1 Double Magic Lantern for having dissolving views                            50.00
 479. 1. Magnet-Electric machine                                                                          25.00
 754. 1. Gould's comp'd [compound] & single microscope                             12.00
 735. 1. Lucernal Microscope adopted to one of the 
              lanterns. no price given. say                                                                     10.00
          1. Copy of the "Flora Americana" by Dr. [Doctor} Torrey
           & Gray in 1 bound vol [volume] & 7 or 8 nos [numbers]                      16.00

        