
          66) Recd. [Received] Nov. 30th (Milledgeville, Georgia)

Ansd. [Answered] Dec. 12th.

Dr. John Torrey

Dr. [Dear?] Sir,

Your kind favor came to hand
when I was too sick to read it & continued [crossed out: illegible]
ill health of myself together with sickness in my 
family have prevented me from answering you 
at an early moment.

I will with great pleasure during the 
winter put up & transmit you a packet
composed of such specimens as I think will
must interest you. Unfortunately for you I have 
never paid any attention to the grasses & am 
therefore incapable of selecting those that would 
be interesting. I will, however, send you specimens 
of all on hand. Some may perhaps prove 
interesting to you. I will here remark that 
if I had known where to address you would 
have sent you specimens two years past: but 
I understand you were in Europe collecting 
materials for your proposed work.

The Boykinia described [added: by] Mr. N. [Nuttall] in the Journal 
of the A. Sci of Pha. [Academy of Science of Philadelphia] I have not seen. May not Dr. 
Hooker award it the same fate as he has the Nuttalia.
Is it not likely it is too near Aconitum to be 
separated? I make these remarks because I [learn?]
Dr. Hooker instantly failed to recognize Nuttalia. 
I would have been prouder to have had Mr. N. 
let the plant sent you by Dr. Short bear my

[in another hand crosswise in the left margin:
from the J. J. Crooke Collection]
        