
          I will give you however no hints about it, until I can
 get if possible another opportunity to examine it.


 May I ask the favor of an early answer to my
 numerous queries, as I hope to leave the city about the 
 30th inst. [instant]


 Yours very truly


 Lewis R Gibbes.


 Did you see a Palmetto I sent Gray? or has he considered
 it good for nothing and tried to make firewood of it?
 Not being aware of his intended departure for Europe, sent
 it to him as he was on the eve of leaving, and perhaps he had
 not time to attend to its preservation.


 [in Torrey's handwriting, referring to the last paragraph] I acknowledged it at the time

        