
          go to Italy for the remainder of the autumn & following winter and
 return next spring to Paris by the South of France. Then I shall
 probably make the [last?] of my way home. But the time is still so far
 distant that I do not like to mention the word home, it directs my
 thoughts from subjects which I must attend to now or I will never have
 another opportunity.


 [address block:] 
 Dr. John Torrey
 Fulton Street
 New York


 [crossed out: care [unreadable] 
 Liverpool
 England]


 [in Torrey's' hand:]
 William Cooper
 March 30
 April 24 [?] 1822
 Rec'd June 10


 I wrote lately to my mother and shall not write by this Packet as I
 expect to hear from her in turn to answer by the Packet of the 12th May
 before I leave Paris. I hope to hear from you of your having
 received mine of Feb'y [February] from Havre. Giving best respects to
 your father & mother & believe me
 Yours [?]
 Wm. [William] Cooper
        