
          could loan me for a short time I should feel exceedingly
obliged to you. You might send it at once to the steamboat
Providence foot of Warren St [Street] or leave it with our agent
Mr Partrige 34 Cliff St [Street] N.Y.

It was reported in the public prints that a Mr Douglass [David Douglas]
a scientific Englishman was killed by a wild bull in
the mountains of Hawaii. Could this have been David
Douglass [Douglas] who was I believe botanizing in the Sandwich
Islands? I sincerely hope that you will receive
some of Crooms seeds or living plants from Florida this
season for I have no doubt he can send some rare &
excellent things from that quarter. I did hope to
be able to give you a call before this but our pressure
of business this spring has precluded the possibility of
that pleasure at present. Among other things which
I shall be gratified to see [added: at your house] are late nos [numbers] of
Hookers Jour. of Bot. [Journal of Botany] & Flor. Boreali [Flora boreali-americana] which you
mention the receipt of

Most faitfully yours
A.J. Downing

Dr Torrey.

P.S. I am sure that you will smile when you see a plant
of Sarracenia purpurea among the rest. N'importe, the thought
struck me that it would be quite a rarity to see it bloom in 
town
AJD
        