
          [on the upper fold of the page:
 endeavor to repay you as you may desire. I would be glad
 to get almost anything from your region, as my collections of
 northern plants are not by any means full _ The plants, from
 the Rocky Hudson will be higher acceptable. Also from Long Is=
 =land & New Jersey _ You cannot well go amiss in what you
 send _ You shall hear from me when I return, and will
 most probably get a shipment _ Very respectfully  Your
       obdt Servt.      W. M. Carpenter}


 [on the center fold of the page:
 John Torrey Esq
 Prof. in the University of New York
 New York City.]


 [on the lower fold of the page:
 When I wrote to you last I was almost in dispair about my plants
 which the insects were destroying by hundred, and had I found
 no means to check their ravages I had determined to ex=
 =change them all for minerals _ but I now think that I can, when
 I get good paper, put an end to their work, I would on this ac=
 =count prefer to exchange for plants instead of minerals or fossils _
 Any thing therefore which you may choose to send me in the way
 of botany will be gladly accepted and I will on my part]

        