
          Philadelphia 14 Oct [October] 1838


 Recd [Received] Oct [October] 15th and [Answered] 16th


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


 Dear Sir,


 With a small package of oenothera & Janioea
 that I send you for examination, unable as I am to
 extricate myself from the difficulty of ascertaining their
 species, you will receive, inclosed, ten dollars on act
 of subscription to your flora. The seven no you
 sent me about a week ago are all gone. four
 were give to S. B. [?] Smith  one sent to the Philosophical
 Society, one to the Philadelphia Library and the
 last to the Pa [Philadelphia] Hospital. I have every reason to 
 expect that these institutions will subscribe as well
 as the Blockley alms house and the College of 
 Pharmacy. Please to send me as soon as possible
 six more copies which will complete 1/4 hundredth
 with those you have already forwarded. The new 
 subscribers are Drs. Wood, Horver & Mc Murtice.
 12 copies have been paid; the other will be 10, as
 soon as I call for the money. Please to let me 
 know if S. B. Smith has paid for the 3 copies you 
 send him throught me. I think I had be able to
 plea the remainder.


 My eyes are gradually getting better; but I cannot
 apply them to botanical investigations. As I cannot use even
 the common magnifying glass; I will send you, if you
 desire, the only microscope I have left; I have under 
        