
          Philadelphia Augt [August] 13th 1838


 Dr. J [John] Torrey N. Y. [New York]


 Dear Sir,


 On my return from the Country, last Saturday night, I found
 six copies of the first part of the Flora of N. A. [North America], a work so much
 wanted, so long expected and for which, in my particular, I most
 warmly thank you.


 The greatest number of our botanical gentlement being now
 absent from the city, I have not been able as yet to find more
 than five subscribers (including myself) who have each received
 and paid for their copy. There [their] four subscribers are Drs Carson,
 Goddard, Swaim and Mr. Los Coates. I calculate moreover upon
 the following. Drs Wood, Homer, Elwin, Bridges, Griffith,
 Mepn Allen, D.B. Smith, Read, the College of Pharmacy and the
 library of the town of Bethlehem. Thus, my dear sir, I advise
 you to send me six copies more, as soon as possible, I will
 most likely place the whole of them. I learn with pleasure
 that our friend Darlington has obtained five subscribers in
 his little town of West-Chester. If there were as much zeal
 for the science all over the U. S. [United States], your labor would be
 well remunerated. I hope, sir, that at all events it will find a 
 sufficient encouragement to permit you to carry it through.


 I found in Bethlehem two very zealous botanists, Judge
 Wolle and Dr Huebener; They are both indefatiguable [infatigable] collectors
 but they want books, collections and botantical advice. [Crossed out : Dr]
 Squire W. [?] is a self taught botanist; Although a frequent companion
 of the late Dr Schweinitz, in his [pereqliuations?], He never
 studied botany but after the death of his friend. Dr Huebener 
 was then a very young man; but he has learning , acutenep [acuteness?]
        