
          Recd Sept 16th And                  
(Botanic Gardens & Nursery
Newburgh Monday morning. 15th Sept 1834)

Dear Sir
I received your note from Matteawan this 
morning and it is a source of much regret to me that I 
have to write to you now instead of coming down by the
boat to acompany you & Dr. Gray. One of the family (my mother ) 
was taken quite dangerously ill on Friday last in consequence 
of whichit is at this moment quite impossible for me to leave 
home for a day or two more. As however the symptoms as 
somewhat more encouraging this morning it is probable that 
I might be able if you think of staying long in N.J. to join 
you there sometime this week. Or perhaps as you intimated
in your note you may not start immediately on account of 
the cholera. In either case will you oblige me soon by a 
note stating what you are doing either from the pines or 
your residence in town. I am quite disapointed in not joining 
you to day. 
Very  sincerely
A.J. Downing

Dr. Torrey            

        