
          Washington, D.C.
October 13th 1854

To

Prof. Jno [John] Torry [Torrey],
96 St. Marks Place,
New York

Dear Sir,

I hav [have] 
a small collection of plants,
gathered during the last year
under the direction of the late
Capt. JW. Gunnison, USA, while
in charge of explorations for a
railway from Fort Leavenworth in
the Kansas and Arkansas rivers
to [?] Ft.; and thence by the
[?] river & [Sanger de Cristo?] pass
to the valley of San Luis; and west
from this valley to Grove & Grene
rivers, and into the Great Basin
in the vicinity of the [?] or 
Nicolls Lake : I have also a few
        