
          from his garden & his botany by his only help mate (!)
 & you have a bevy of such helpers. You ought to
 get on cleverly and very fast. "what can be the reason
 why you so steadily refuse to come to us-- if you are
 as much attached to us as you profess to be." You ought
 to be ashamed of yourself for penning this last sentence
 & tho' I have a good reason, may be more than one,
 why I cannot come just now, I scorn to assign it
 to you, & in fact, am too indignant to write another
 line to you, Mr. Professor.


 Yes, dear cousin Eliza [Torrey's daughter, Eliza Shaw Torrey], it is "good for you to be at
 Princeton," & I have found it only too good in my
 own case, tho' my present home would no longer
 present the desolate contrast which Jane St. formerly
 did. "Light hearts & beaming faces" do indeed "renew
 one's youth" but-- Am I not still young? I
 like not the insinuation, dear cousin. I have
 no objection to your feeling "a little spice of the
 kitten" & purring or frisking as you see fit, but 
 for me-- I am -- a Lion of course-- but a young
 one, not a cub, but with a beautiful full-grown
 mane! I felt assured you would be happy
 with those friends whom I have found so
 kind, & rejoice to learn I was not disappointed.
 I have heard nothing from 4th St. since you left, so
 have no news from that quarter.


 No-- you saucy, abominable Jeannie [Jane Robertson Torrey], I am
 not "in so much splendour now that I cannot
 think of Princeton"-- & when you are so naughty
 as to insinuate so injuriously I find it easier
 to "resist the sweet call" to "come immediately
        