
          Recd. July 29.
And. 30.

Paris July 7th 1857
My dear Prof Torrey

When I arrived here
in December last, I immediately enquired
about your engravings and
drawings and wrote to you about
their state of forwardness.  have you
ever got that letter? I doubt it
as Gray did not get his, sent about
the same time. Since a few
weeks I am again in Paris and
learn that Mlle Tailland has finished
all the engravings she had in hand
and that the plates have been forwarded
to you. Prof Decaisne says that he
despairs ever hearing from you again
as you never acknowledged the receipt
of the former batch sent to you,
and which I saw in New York at
the printers. Please write to him
if you should not have done so
already. He says he has not heard
from you since years.

And how have my Cactaceae of
the Railroad expedition gone on?
How did that lithographer in New York

        