
          As to your parcels, unless you want the books I 
 think I will retain it them a little while to add to 
 them a selection from Wright's plants. I shall pick 
 out what you need & ask you to name some of them. 
 I hoped you would have been here to do it. 


 I am desperately driven & hurried. But still 
 hope to get away for that flying trip to Washington 
 as I wrote you, when I mean to see you. 


 Jane had hoped to go with me to Princeton, but 
 as we now propose to go the 1st of June, she loses the 
 month of June with her father at Beverly, & must 
 make them some visits during my absence. 


 Hooker writes that old Aiton is dead, & that he is to 
 have his house [added: at the Garden], though it must be altered first. 


 I shall be sending on a parcel to Harvey before long, 
 & will send yours with them. I am afraid I shall 
 not have them ready in time to bring myself, though it 
 it is possible. 


 Jane joins me in love to Mrs. Torrey & the girls 
 from Yours faithfully,
 Asa Gray
        