
          letters frequently miscarry. You are not particular enough in
 mentioning how our friends are getting on particularly the married
 ones, it is natural to be anxious about them. My respects
 to your father & mother & Mr. & Mrs. Halsey, DeKay, &c. I am
 just going off to the Grand Opera with a party of ladies to see the
 Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, of which they have made a
 most spendid spectacle so goodbye Wm. [William] Cooper


 [in Torrey's hand:] Rec'd April 25


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


 [Ann Maria?]

        