
          If I had thought of it in season, I would have sent
 you a few plants by [Samuel Botsford] Buckley. I have hardly anything however, which I have not already sent. I must try to get a
 few specimens of Bapt. [Baptisia] mollis [now Thermopsis mollis] to you, which you certainly
 never saw, unless Dr. [Cyrus L.] Hunter sent it to you.


 What do you think of [George] Engelmann's Cuscutae [possibly A monography of the North American Cuscutineae?]? He has sent me
 several species (?) but I have never examined them. This new
 Genus is a pretty looking affair. 


 [address block:]
 Prof. John Torrey
 Princeton
 N. Jersey


 Please to tell Buckley, that I had due enquiry made for his
 overcoat, but could hear nothing of it. Present my compliments
 to him.


 Truly yours
 M.A. [Moses Ashley] Curtis
        