
          Middleton March 2 1832


 My Dear Friend


 Your kind Letters and 2 packages came to hand
 this morning, you know me well enough to be able
 to judge with what unfeigned delight your Letters and
 Scientific productions are always received.


 I thought, grateful as I was for your Letter, you had made
 one strange omission and therefore I mite [might] venture to notice
 of the first thing. Why my Dear Sir did you forget to
 tell me something about Mrs. Torrey and those charming
 little girls that sang so sweetly to me the Day I dined
 in Company with Mrs. Griffin.  I want much to see those 
 young ladies again.


 The Children of my friend the immortal plants which
 have grown up since our acquaintance will I trust
 ever be regarded with feelings commensurate with the
 sincerity and purity of our friendship.


 I have looked much at the formation of Characters
 imparted by the Mother's example, Mrs. T [Torrey] in my
 estimation is eminently fitted to train up Daughters
 in all the force and loveliness of moral, and religious
 deportment.


 I have noted down in my Mem. [Memorandum] Book at various [crossed out: things]
 a list of things for our conversation as I cannot
 however visit you at present.  I will turn to my
 Memorandum without further delay and first on 
 the list I find Nelumbium [Nelumbo]. I visited the locality of
 this plant last summer. Seldens Cove, Hadlyme--
 Was then too early for it, obtained shortly afterwards
 the leaves and roots of the plants but no flowers.
 It flowers the first week in August, by the 12th is past
 flowering.  The roots are very singular, not like
 the Nymphea in the least.


 Last Summer I completed the arrangements of my
 herbarium by putting all the additional plants
 I had received in their respective places. An undertaking
 I had long deffered [deferred] and was in progress with the 

        