
          La [Lousiana] State University Baton Rouge Oct 4. 1870


 Prof John Torrey
 New York


 Dear Sir!


 I sent you a
 letter yesterday by mail asking you whether 
 you would be willing to determine a number
 of plants for me, and proposing to send you
 the undetermined specimens as soon as your affirmative 
 answer is received. But since that letter
 was written it occurred to me that too much
 time would be consumed awaiting your reply,
 and that trusting to your generosity I would
 send you by mail the package of plants principally 
 composed of grasses & sedges all at once.


 Accordingly I have this day dispatched to you
        