
          Albany May [11th?] 1843

My dear sir

I ought to have written you in answer
to your last, as you then appeared to be labouring under
a misapprehension in regard to one or two points.
I thought it right & proper that you should know what
was said in regard to your report, but you ought
not, for that reason suppose for a moment that I
expressed a concerning opinion, far from it. I expected
a confidence that you would report [?] the parts
upon which my confidence was founded.

I do think you are over anxious about your work
& that [added: you] will word it over too much. It is true man of
science, or expecting much, but it is easy for you
to satisfy all, & I do hope that it will not be long before
you will be down upon us.

I have now said the principal thing I intended, viz.
that you are fully sustained where the subject of your 
report was alluded during the last winter,
& I [crossed out: shou] [added: shall] feel always ready & bound to make your cause
good as far as my ability will sustain it.

Yours in great haste
E. Emmons

J. Torrey, MD.
        