
          Marietta Ohio
 June 8th 1855.


 Red [received] July 7
 ansd [answered] 9th


 Dr. [Doctor] Torrey
 Dear Sir


 I write to
 inform you that I have ordered a
 box to be forwarded to you, containing
 cones + [and] specimens of the Wellingtonia?
 gigantea + [and] also specimens of 
 the Taxodium sempervirens all from 
 California. The box was sent to 
 me at San Francisco from the Mammoth
 Grove, but did not reach there
 until I had left for the east. A
 friend, who arrived on the "Star of 
 the West", a week or ten days since
 brought it along.


 I have this day requested him
 to forward it immediately to you
 at New York for your examination.
 I am ignorant of the particular

        