
          Prof Torrey Kew Aug 25, 57

My Dear Doctor

Excuse pen and ink.
I [?] a traveller and can not
give it better than I have it!
Thank you for your kind letters
and ready answers - certainly
unlooked for.

Last Sunday I spent with Mr.
Scheer at North [?], nothing
very profitable for Cactaceae there
but there and I believe at [H?]
also [I?] [underlined: for the first time] saw
a part of the [crossed out: bounding] [added: A. A. E.] [?]
by [Prestele?], (which you might have
sent me direct!) They, on the whole,
pleased me much, some things I
would have [altered?], if I had had
a proof; [?] with [Akermann's?] (?)
work I am not satisfied at all
This Echin. whipplei is as pale
as death, why you can hardly see
what is is  the engraver seems
to have been afraid to make a
black line or dot!

I shall be much obliged to you
        