
          Prof  [Professor] Torrey


 Dear Sir,


 I have enjoyed the opportunity to see Dr Gray
 and spend with him several agreable evenings,
 looking over some families of my herbarium. I regret
 exceedingly  not to have had the occasion to peruse
 the whole as I might have corrected the many errors
 it contains.


 Having heard of your late arrangment with
 your publishers, Mep Wiley and Patnam, I have 
 just written to them to remit them the actct [account]of
 my list of subscription and the decline to have any
 more to do with the distribution of the flora and with
 the collection, which is the unpleasant part of it. This 
 trouble I took for you and Dr Gray without
 reluctance; but now [added: that] my position is changed, I really
 decline it with pleasure. It is exceedingly annoying
 to have to tease acquitances (and sometime offend)
 when they are in arrcan.


 I sent you some time ago a bundle of plants
 received from Squire Wolle, for your examination
 He had written to me several times to be made
 acquainted with your decision. Dr Gray tells me 
 that you have examined them and sent them to
 me; but they have not come to hand.
        