
          On these, as on all I sent you in aprevious parcel, I
 am very anxious to hear your decision, & remarks. Those
 which are new, (if such there be) or obscure or rare, & need
 description or elucidation I should like to work out a paper 
 from. Will you lend a hand, or offer advice?


 very truly your friend - M. A. Curtis


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 Prof. John Torrey
 New York
 N.Y


 [postmark: Wilmington
 Jan
 15 [?]
 N.C.]


 Can you sen me Schweinitz [Schweinitz?]
 Mss. [Mss.?] on N.C. plants by the next
 package you forward. I can make
 my notes from it so as to return in
 a short time, if you [you?] have any use for it.


 P.S.
 Is your Flora in the printer's hands yet? I am impatient for
 it. -- Direct to me for the present at Raleigh. Any thing [Anything] by
 sea, should be directed to Wilmington, care of Dr. A.J. DeRosset [underlined: Wilmington, care of Dr. A.J. DeRosset].
 My new residence will open a new field for botanizing, but
 I am very uncertain of being able to improve it.


 Since packing my box I have been into the woods & picked a few
 Pine cones for Hooker [underlined: Pine cones for Hooker]. They will be injured I fear. I leave them
 for you to label. -- The Box goes in a week or ten days,, [,] per Schr.
 Undaunted. Enquire of John Ogden, South Street.

        