
          Buffalo, Jan 9, 1867

My very dear Sir:

Look out for your
spoons!, your botanical ones, 
for I contemplate a raid in 
Torrey's Herb. [herbarium] room. I leave
tonight for Albany, to attend the
Regents' Meeting to-morrow evening
&c., & if possible, will run
down to New York, pay my 
respects to you & your family, 
and pocket that spoon! I 
must put up at my daughter's, 
19 Park Avenue, if she can
put up with me. 
I have just recd [received] a very 
kind & pleasant letter from 
Prof. Chapman. But he
writes that his age & infirmities
keep him from the 
field. Ah me! We ought
        