
          invaded a frog's egg for food

Of Mr. Eaton I can say little. I wrote him a
while since, but have no answer, & have not heard from
him by any one. I believe he is [?] Botany &
Chemistry & Minerology around him.

Do be so good as to send me immediately Michcaux [Michaux's]
Discription of Oryzopsis asperifolia. James thinks the
new one is very like Mx.'s figure. If so, I can hardly
believe Big. should mistake it, & I am certain, a true discription
of the new, can never fit Mich. O. melanocarpa.
But I want to see what Mx. says, & I can not now have
access to it. I hope to get this work by & by.
And I want to see soon, as I am preparing a
discription & drawing for Prof. Silliman.

Do let me hear from you soon - it is now
two months since you wrote that I might hear 
soon from you. But I suppose you have been
overloaded with the treasures brought home by the
savans [savants?] of your city. I write in haste & badly. My
eyes have been much [diseased?] this fortnight. "A sight of
you is gude for sain e'en". But I find no one who so cosily
effects a cure. By the way what in English is the Title of the
Dutch Friend, edited by Rev. Schaffer? I want to have it, but
I can not [read?] more of it.

With much respect your cordial Friend

C. Dewey

Dr. John Torrey

Dec. 2. The Mail box has today brought me another letter from you. I
was most heartily glad to open another from your hand, & as heartily
give you my thanks. I am glad to hear that all things came
safely. I have now some anxiety about the awful box of
which I wrote you 10 or 12 days ago.

[left margin]
A letter comes with the cryptogamia, as I have said - but none with the
others received some time ago. I am glad you were much pleased with
that Tremolite. I
thought it a fine [?]. But I have three more, equally good, & one far better. I
have thought of sending one to col. Gibbs. I am glad Mr. [Peins?] would accept his. I wish
your remarks as you have leisure.
        