
          With respect to the sales of your botany, I have considered
 the subject a great deal, and I hardly know how to
 calculate. I know many who [crossed out: will] would give 20 Dollars
 or 30 Dollars for it, rather than do without it. And I believe
 every student I ever had, now amounting to
 almost two thousand, will contrive to have access
 to it. I think, therefore, that it will be purchased
 in every little neighborhood of botanists,
 also by every zealous individual, who thinks he
 can afford it.


 A.E.


 Dr. John Torrey
 Fulton Street
 New York


 Amos Eaton
 Jany. 12th 1822
 Rec’d Jany 21st


 Would it not be advisable to get it published
 on terms, similar to those on which my Manual
 was first published. [crossed out: Ask the bookseller how]
 Websters advanced me $120, bore all the expenses,
 and sold out the edition. Then accounted to me for
 all beyond the expenses at the retail price, after deducting
 one third from the retail price, for their discounts
 with booksellers and other trouble.


 A.E.

        