
          the duties of the office of "Special Examiner of 
 Drugs & Medicines" constitute a sufficient
 guarantee for the proper discharge of those
 duties in future, will exert a decided influence.
 Any thing of the kind you have leisure to prepare
 may be mailed to me, as you did before and 
 I will transmit it to the proper department
 in Washington. Trusting you will excuse the
 trouble my request invokes I must beg you
 to belive me most respectfully


 & truly your obliged
 Friend & Servant
 William E. A. Aiken


 Prof. John Torrey
        