
          
 Shall you not also want paper of yours State Botany? if so 
 why not employed this maker. The concern is a very respectable 
 one. W.H. Hollister of Hartford is agent. If they 
 should execute this order as I trust they will, I shall try 
 to induce them to manufacture a few reams and have 
 any agent in the City of New York. if you will give
 it your countenance, do write me respecting this 
 matter by return of post, or so soon as you can you give 
 an order (I have not heard that you are supplied 
 in the City with this article, if it should be so, do 
 let me know before I proceed further with the business. 
 Mr. Coles the paper maker has not yet resumed his working 
 or I should get the paper made in Middletown as before. 
 The paper cannot I learn be afforded of such quality as 
 I require for less than $7, or perhaps I may have it made 
 a little extra on this. I shall make the best arrangement I can 
 effect. 


 I have as much to say but will write you another day. 
 Having been much occupied with numerous patients and 
 an increasing demand for my services I find it very difficult to 
 leave town for a single day. In the fall I am less pressed, and then 
 can sometimes leave for a few days. I may not be able to see 
 you in the City before October, when I shall certainly make an 
 effort & before if I can get away. 


 You were so kind as to offer me the loan of your Asters!! 
 if they were sent I should not keep them more than one or 
 at most 2 weeks, and would amply repay the favour in 
 specimens. Should you object to box them up and send them 
 by the Hartford steam Boat!! also the numbers of the annals 
 of the New York Lyceum I wrote you about, and forwarded the 
 money. (They were never sent or rather received, as I named to you. 


 I sent to Paris for some Botanical works, such as Decands Prod [De Candolle's Prodromus], Michaux Flora [Flora boreali-americana]
 &c They have arrived. I am also expecting in a few days to see 
 [notes?] spl pl. I have at last the Cat [Catalogus plantarum Americae Septentrionalis] of Muhlenberg 2d ed, 1818!
 Have you any spare pamphlets and one of [Croons?] Cat that I should 
 like for a friend? 


 Yours Truly 
 Joseph Barratt


 To Prof J Torrey


 [in left margin]
 I am from time to time preparing for my own convenience lists of [added: some large and difficult] genera, and should have liked 
 to have made the references to Grays Cyp. [North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae]. I have made the references in my Herbarium to your Cyper [Cyperaceae]
 but not to Gray which I could do if I had the loan of the [added: label] sheets. I have enough new matter to make an 
 appendix to the Carices.

        