
          If you and Dr. Gray should still be of opinion
 that any considerable portion of Dr. Baldwins
 Correspondence would be worth publication,
 I have nearly made up my mind to undertake
 it.  I have a son who is a printer, at Lancaster,
 in this state; and he thinks he could probably
 print a tolerably vast edition - say of 500 copies
 without much [pecuniary?] cost, beyong the paper
 & binding.  Our City publishers are also shy of
 undertaking anything, at their own risk, execpt stand:
 ard works, or Novels: and as I am too proud to be
 soliciting favors of them, I would prefer
 a small edition, in the manner above 
 suggested, - even if it were not quite so
 handsomely got up, - rather than subject
 myself to the caprices & humors of the trade.
 I have prepared a Prospectus, with a
 view to obtain some subscribers before  the volume
 appears: & I think it not unlikely but enough
 may be had in this county - in Lancaster - and
 the City of Philadelphia to cover the cost of paper & binding.
 As soon as I receive the printed Prospectus, I will
 send a copy to you, & another to Dr. Gray. Possibly
 a few of the Botanists of New York, & Boston, may
 feel disposed to countenance the publication of
 the [ ?] Baldwinianae.  At all events, my
 plan of publication will not be a very serious matter;
 and if you & Dr. Gray approve, I think I shall go on with it.
 Is it probable that we may count upon receiving the 8th vol.
 of the Prodromus in the spring?  Every year that slips by me,
 now, makes me more & more anxious to see completed
 the Prodromus of Prof. DeCandolle - & the Flora of North America!


                                         Very truly & sincerely
                                            your friend, Wm Darlington


 Dr. Jn. Torrey
 New York
        