
          Smithsonian Institution
 Washington July 12' 1857


 Dear Doctor,


 Prof. [Professor] Henry being quite unwell
 requests me to write you on the subject
 of the Memoir on Fremontianae plants,
 etc. I have written to Craighead,
 117 Fulton St., NYork, for his charge
 for printing our 4to [quarto] papers and expect
 his answer in a day or two. We are 
 thoroughly tired of Jenkins, who is a poke,
 and a poor one at that, requiring entirely
 too much watching and supervision,
 as soon as we conclude, you shall know
 about it.


 What shall be the title of 
 your paper? Anything like this


 Plantae Fremontianae
 or
 Descriptions of Plants collected in 
 California, by Col. J. C. Fremont
 by
 Dr. John Torrey
 or Descriptions of plants collected by Col.
 J.C. Fremont, in California. By John Torrey


 This for the bastard title on first
 page. What next shall be the 
 running title.

        