
          Dr. [Dear] Doctor,


 I send you a few
 plants which have been long
 laid by for you, being what 
 you selected from my last years'
 collections. I wish they were
 more & better worth having, but
 it is idle for the poor to grieve
 because they cannot enrich the 
 wealthy. I beg my respects to
 Mrs. Torrey [Eliza Torrey], & am very truly yrs [yours]


 Jno [John] Carey


 Sat'y [Saturday] Morning
 Dr. Torrey
        