
          West-Chester, Penna [Pennsylvania]  Aug. 28. 1828.

Dear Sir,

The drawing of the Prunus americana,
formerly mentioned in my letters, is now engraved
and ready to be struck off. I propose to furnish
a sufficiency of copies for the Annals of the Lyceum,
if the Society should think proper to accept of it
and would therefore be obliged if you would
inform me how many copies of the Annals
are usually printed. It is my wish to have the
plates, all colored, if I can procure it to be
done: though I apprehend it will require the
whole of the ensuing winter to accomplish
that part of the business. Perhaps if a few
copies were colored here, & sent on, the Lyceum
would cause the [?] to be done. In that
case I would send them on without coloring:
otherwise I should prefer to retain them until
they were all colored. I will thank you to
give me such information on the subject as
you can procure.

Have you commenced printing your second
volume of the Flora yet? Or, if not, have you
ascertained when it will probably go to press?
Some of us, hereabouts, are very anxious to see it:
and I may observe that a few copies of the first
volume ought to be kept for sale in Philada [Philadelphia]
where I believe it is not now to be had.

Do you know whether the 3rd vol. of De Candolle's Prodromus
is yet published? In haste, your truly,
Wm Darlington

Dr. Jno. [John] Torrey, N.Y.
        