
          Bigelow &c.[etc.] mentioned in terms of high respect. 
Many of them know Emmons also. Now
they are to see his name degraded, in a public
journal, into a mere [added: promiscuous] collector for Dr. Torrey.

I have a word to say in excuse for [added: the] Websters.
You told me they said something about foreign
correspondents &c.[etc.]  when they sent the
Manuals. I went there to scold them about it.
They produced a letter which I wrote them
from N. York in Sept. 1820. I there say, that
"Dr. Torrey will lend us books, which he received
"from his European correspondents and will
"mark in them American localities &c.[etc.]  IN
"order to assist him in making due returns,
"I promised him two dozen Manuals of
"the 3d Edition." Now I remember that was 
our conversation and precisely my [hole in paper]
I say this for the sake of justice. For [hole in paper]
Websters have more liberality than [all?] [hole in paper]
the booksellers in N. York. I wrote the 
letter in one hour after I made the
promise, and know it was founded on
our conversation. I do not say this
on my account, but for the sake of 
justice to the Websters.

I am to stay here until the first week in September. I lecture to a large class, EVenings 
on Chemistry, days on Natural History.
Perhaps I may be in N.[New] York before I return;
but it is doubtful.

Tell me what to say to my botanical
class here about your general flora of the the Northern
States. You knew I am soon to
lecture to 70 - 80 Vermonters also.

Yours [?]
amos Eaton.

Dr. John Torrey

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