
          44 Sixth St. Tuesd'y Morn'g [Tuesday Morning]
 [in pencil: [1848]]


 Your note, my dear friend, has given me
 very much pleasure, & indeed I was
 writing to you, yesterday, when I received it.
 I shall not leave the city for 2 weeks, &
 shall be most rejoiced to see you. Write
 one a line the day before you propose coming
 & say whether I may expect to see you in the
 Morn'g [Morning] or Aft'n [Afternoon] that I may not be disappointed. 
 You must contrive matters that we may
 have an hour or so, of daylight together, as
 I want to receive some light on the Chenopodiaceae,
 & (it may be) also to impart a
 very small ray. Come alone. I mean
 do not bring H. [probably Torrey's son Herbert] with you, whom, by the way,
 I have not seen since my return, from the
 country. Thanks for [Joseph Nicolas] Nicollet's autogr. [autograph]
 The memory of poor [William] Oakes, & the, at least
 doubtful, character of his decease, completely
 haunted me for some time, & worried
 my spirits, extremely. Our last parting
 was most kind, on his part. After
 urging me to spend a month with him,
 he said-- "Well, Carey, I have had so much
 pleasure in my intercourse with you, that
 I will not believe we are not to meet again
 in this world"!


 I am glad to hear what
 you tell me about the preparation of
 some choice Fremontians [i.e. plant collected on one of John Charles Frémont's expeditions] for Smithsonian
 Memoirs. As to my share of the "pickings"
        