
          Recd. Jany 11th

Albany Jay [January] 9 1838

My dear sir

About 4 weeks since I wrote [added: you] by Mr. Mather 
who was to leave the letter at the Lyceum. From your 
more than perfect silence I conclude the letter did not fall into your 
hands. I wish to know something in relation to the 
minl [mineral] water I left at the Labratory [Laboratory]. I did not expect an 
analysis, but merely the application of a few tests. I wished also 
the sp gr [specific gravity] of these 2 minls [minerals] I put into your hands, & anything else 
you were disposed to say. What I then wanted, I know want, 
if the inconvenience & trouble will not be too great.

I am requested by the Hon. Judge Buel & Mr. MacIntyre 
in behalf of an agricultural society to request you to give 
them one or more lectures sometime this winter on the 
application of the science of botany to agriculture or something 
like it, or suit yourself with a subject only keep 
in mind the nature of the corporation you address. 
A speedy answer to all the above is respectfully solicited.

Yours 
truly 
E. Emmons

Prof. J. Torrey
        