
          Prof. [Professor] John Torey, Princeton, N. J. [New Jersey]


 My dear Sir,


 I have received your valuable present and my volume of
 specimens. If I have tired you, repeatedly, with my requests to
 return the latter, It was merely on account of the vacancy left in my
 herbarium by the absence of this volume.


 As to your present of rare specimens, I cannot express how
 satisfied I feel at being able to add to my collection so many new
 and rare things, and, especially, plants from Col. [Colonel] Fremont's Expeditions
 of which I had not yet a single specimen, From this
 source, I orginally, expected much, though my friend and brother
 in law, Prof. [Professor] Ducanlel of Baltimore, to whom Col. F. [Colonel Fremont], his intimate
 friend, had made strong promises; But the collections having been
 directed to the Smithsonian [Justiats?], I was fully desappointed [disappointed].


 I have not had the pleasure to see Dr Short, during his stay
 in Philadelphia. I heard of it too late and when I saked to see him,
 he was gone. I am not personally acquainted with him, but my
 great veneration for this zealous botanist would have been my
 excuse for thus intruding myself upon him. If you come to 
 Philadelphia to meet him, I rely upon you, my dear sir, for
 procuring me the honor of his acquaintance.
        