
          Dioscorides, Galen, &c.

I have procured a good supply of steel turnings to burn
in oxygen. I selected them in lengths of 15 inches and have
laid them in a box between sheets of paper. Shall
bring or send them to you.

Jany [January] 20th. Yesterday I saw C.U. [Charles Upham] Shepard as to Prof Silliman
enquired what was going on. The pamphlet was uppermost.
He did not think it could be Featherstonhaugh. Said the writer seemed
to know a good deal about steam!! Then who [added: knew] any thing about it in
NY [New york]. Renwick is not free from suspicion. Shephard told me
the experiments of Beck on magnetism would be exhibited this course.
Have some thoughts of visiting N Haven [New Haven] to see the experiments
on galvanism &c. Mr. Jones who wrote the
sketches &c in the [medits?] &c &c. has been [added: lately] ordained, is likely to be
settled in this place. Within a few days I have
seen a Miss [Frances] Pomeroy from Boston, well aquainted [acquainted] with
Nuttall. She says the naturalist informs her he is
envelloped completely in feathers and neglects Botany now.
From her account of him, should suppose he directs his attention
entirely to Birds. Miss P. [Pomeroy] who is making a visit here is just
returned from Fayal [Faial] where she carried the seeds of the
new Coreopsis of Nutt [Nuttall] from Arkansaw [Arkansas] which grows
well on that Island.

Jany [January] 25
I had intended to have visited Mrs Torrey again previously
to leaving NY [New York]. The circumstances of my hasty departure
are however sufficiently known to her through the medium
of her husband, my esteemed friend.

Your little daughters, tell her interested me greatly by
their intelligence and very unusual advancement
for their tender years. I take much interest in
the advancement of children and none so deeply
as yours. Do present my kind respects to her

Yours very Truly & Sincerely
Joseph Barratt 
        