
          Wednesday Evening 


 10a


 My Dear Doctor


 Your kind letter of the 18th came so 
 late, my books being chiefly packed, and time 
 pressing greatly, having moreover received an 
 intimation that I am wanted at Cambridge, 
 the orders for 10,000 dollars worth of books standing 
 awaiting my list for $1000 of it, that I must 
 send you Nicolett's [Nicollet's],box as it is. All the Compos. [Compositions?] 
 you will find carefully labelled secundum floram 
 so far is Flora has gone. The others I have taken 
 a specimen of those wh. [which] looked important, when
 there were several in the Coll. [Collection]. It is an interesting
 collection, and I am sorry it is remanded, I 
 trust that, acting upon Nicolett's [Nicollet's] proposal, you 
 will retain a specimen of the more interesting when 
 there are several, as is mostly the case. There will 
 be little difficulty in making out catalogue up 
 to Compositae, and in several other families. Of the 
 rest, it cannot be done it in the satisfactory manner 
 one wd [would] desire. I am sorry it happens that 
 I cannot aid you.


 Oakes has lost a child.


 Some difficulty has occured about my lodgings 
 engaged by Greene at Cambridge. I shall therefore 
 leave my formidable array of boxes here, stowing 
 away as well as I can, for a week or two, until I 
 know where there are to be put. Then Wiley is to 
 have them sent on to me by [crossed out: illegible] R. [Rail] Road. 
 I shall arrange with him to pay the freight here, 
 making it up to him in 3 or 4 weeks; as I have a little 
 cash left.


 Mrs. T. [Torrey] takes a little box [added: [Also a separate copy for yourself.]] containing 18 copies of
 Bot. [Botanical?] Text-Book, which is very neat-looking and very 
 cheap. $1.50. They are charged to me at the
        