
          J. Torrey M.D.                                     New Albany April 23rd 1839


                  ansd May 27
                  Sir


                          Yours of Jan. 9th was duly
 read.  For your friendship in attending to me
 request to purchase the [?] & acept of
 my warmest thanks.
    I have put up a few plants that will be 
 handed to you by the Rev. E. R. Beadle, to
 whom I have taken the liberty of giving a letter
 of introduction to you. Mr Beadle is a gentle-
 man of high intellectual culture, an eloquent
 & able minister of the gospel of the most devoted
 and unaffected [?] and is held in the highest
 [estimation?] by all his friends and acquaintences.
    He does not expect to be in New York till the 5th
 of May and will leave Boston about the middle
 of the month in a [?] to [Birout?] via
 Smyrna.  Since putting up the plants I
 have ascertained that the Aster virgatus is
 probably the [?] L. - You will probably find
 several errors in the names of the plants, as I have not
 had the opportunity of examining authentic spe-
 cimens.  Please to correct my errors and inform
 me what they are, and if there are any new species
 describe them.  - Has Dr Riddick of New Orleans
 sent you any of his new plants.  I recd a package
        