
          Recd Jan [January] 18th 1839


 Prof [Professor] Torrey, N. [New] York


 Dear Sir, 


 I have your favor dated 21 Dec. [December] and 9th January, bringing
 me an order apon Carey, Hart & co with whom I have settled
 this day for ten copies sold by them. I send you within their
 check fot $24, which you will collect without difficultly through
 your banks. Be quiet about me and my plants, I would not
 submit you to any inconvenience for your attention to them, when
 you have lesiure to bestow apon them, it will be time enough.
 It is still doubtful whether I shall go to Europe or not. As cash
 are my terms, it is more difficult to find than was expected by
 him with whom I had contracted. When ready, I will let you
 know it in time, to give you the opportunity to send to your friends.
 x ( I write in great hurry, disturbed [?] by [?]
 & anxious to get rid of them to crop over to the opera. I expect
 a good deal from the voyage of Dr Gray to whom I beg to be
 remembered. As you have spoken of R. [Rafinesque] do you know his new
 genus Rafinesquia? if  you do not, [quep?] what it is [crossed out: the]
 The [Gardocquia?] Hookeri. You see that he had not been a fool
 in his choice. It is a beautiful plant, more bashfull than he is 
 himself)


 Yours respectfully


 E. [Elias] Durand


 Jan [January] 15th
        