
          The above is a list of my wants [underlined: wants] -- a nice long one -- giving you scope
 enough for selection. I have nto a copy of any Flora from which I
 could make a selection except Eaton's Manual, by which means
 however I have made out a more comprehensive list. It will
 answer for yourself and Dr. Gray; For him I shall prepare a
 parcel as soon as he informs me of what he wants. To you
 I shall forward a package of Mountain plants collected
 this summer as soon as I find a waggon [wagon] going to the Low
 Country, which I hope will be shortly.


 Can you take charge of a Box for Dr. Hooker from me? I do not
 know how to get it to him but by troubling you. Another thing,
 Will it be proper to forward him any unpublished species [underlined: unpublished species]? I
 should like to make him out as good a parcel as I can afford,
 but if he would snatch up the species [species?] I shall not send undescribed
 ones.


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 [postmark] Lincolnton NC. [date illegible]


 Prof. John Torrey
 New York.


 [illegible scribblings]


 P.S. I think of going to Columbia S.C. next week, & shall make
 a flying trip to Charleston, if I can, to see Elliott's Herb. It is
 the property of a daughter of the late Mr. E. who is something
 of a Botanist. I have no doubt of her willingness to loan [loan?]
 it for a season, unless she should be dissuaded
 by interested persons.


 Oct. 21st. 1836


 The vaccinium I described in my last letter is V. erythrocarpum
 Mx. Its habit is anything else but that of Oxycoccus macrocarpus.
 I am anxiously wanting a letter from you. -- As I have nothing to do
 at present, I should like very much to have your observations on my
 Catalogue that I may proceed to finish it... Is [?], E, the P. striatum [?]


 Is not Carex bullatus, Ell, the C. polymorpha, M? -- & his [?] bidentata the O [O?].
 herbiola, Br? -- & his Trillium nervosum, the T [T?]. stylorum, N? Is not Euphorbia portulaccoides [portulacoiedes] 
 one of the varieties of E. ipecacuanhae? -- -- Hooker offers me
 plants from the Northern regions, from Texas & Louisiana! ---- I wish you to
 retain the money I sent you, subject it to my order. I wish you to add Gray's
 Elements of Botany, Beck's Botany, & Eaton's Manual (7th edition) if it be out, to the 
 list of purchases. -- -- In the box of plants which I now have ready for you I have put
 two [underlined: two] cones of Pinus pungens, one of which is for Dr. Gray [underlined: Dr. Gray]. I will send him the leaves hereafter.


 Nov. 1. I expect to be in Wilmington in 3 or 4 weeks & will send your box thence.
 Please to address me at W. until further directions. Yours very truly, M.A. Curtis. 

        