
          
 About Mr. Wright, he begs you to write to him that he
 hopes to have some funds for him soon. And hopes 
 Dr. Short will be induced to assist him. And asks you to 
 manage the correspondence with him. He will try & write
 himself before long to him. 


 The parcel from Mr. Drayton you will please send
 to Putnam, with directions to forward it to Delf [Delft?] for Dr. 
 Gray.


 As for the Ourisia C. [Californica] & Vil. [Villarsia] pumila, Mr. Bentham 
 fell to comparing them at once. And they are not at all
 the same thing; [added: though the leaves resemble much, the flowers are quite different]. So Dr. Gray says you gave Mr. B. [Bentham] a great
 fright for nothing. He was quite startled. 


 Dr. Gray says he has not written you since Antwerp;
 so that I should have commenced with a sketch of 
 our charming tour through Switzerland. It is too late
 now, so tell Eliza I will save that for an answer to
 her letter which I hope may be coming soon.


 You will see we did not get back in time for
 the Association. Mr. Lowell was there, he told us.


 Your letter contained many nice accounts of Sunday
 things. Our home letters are generally too full of home
 news to contain much of what is going in general.


 With very affc. [affectionate] love to Mrs. Torrey & the girls & Herbert,
 I am very sincerely & affcly. [affectionately]


 Jane L. Gray.


 Dr. Gray begs you to send [added: by mail] as soon as you receive this, the thin 
 proofs of the last of Sprague's drawings for Fremont. He wishes to show Mr.
 B. [Bentham] the new [crossed out: species] [added: genera]. And please send Wright's mosses &c. to Sullivant, the
 fungi to Putnam to forward to Mr. Curtis, & the lichens to Cambridge for Tuckerman
 who will be at home or soon after this letter gets there.

        