
          The[ Religinae?] Baldwinianae are now in press,
 and about one third done.  My son prints the
 work in Lancaster; & the proof sheets are sent by
 mail - rather inconvenient - but the best arrange:
 ment I could make.  I have got a lithograph
 of the Doctor, taken from a portrait by Peale,
 just prior to his setting out on his last journey
 and was much pleased with it.  It is so like
 my poor friend, - so expressive of the gentleness and
 benevolence which marked his character, - that I can
 almost fancy I am gazing on his own placid face.


     As the work is printed during the intervals of
 leisure in a newspaper office, - where
 there is much jobbing, also - it of course
 proceeds slowly: but I hope to have
 it out in two or three months, at furthest.


     I know not whether you visit New York, often,
 at this season: but if you do, & should happen
 in at Wiley & Putnam's, I wish you would say
 to them, that Hooker's Journal of Botany, from
 November 1841 to December 1842, inclusive, which
 they undertook to procure for me, some time back,
 has not yet been heard of by me.  I have
 received the London Journal of Botany for Jan.,
 March & April 1842 - but the February
 number has not reached me.  Whether it
 has miscarried, or not been sent, I know not.
     If they would enlighten me on the above 
 prints, I should be much obliged.


                        Very sincerely yours,
                                           Wm Darlington


 Dr. J. Torrey, Princeton

        