
          Cambridge, March 22, 1854. 


 My Dear Friend 


 We are deeply grieved 
 to learn by your kind letter of 
 yesterday that dear Mrs. Torrey 
 is so ill. Jane, who sends 
 her warmest love, would write this 
 morning, but she has to go to 
 Boston, to help in despatching her 
 brother Wm. [William]. She will write to 
 Eliza when she returns. 


 Meanwhile pray keep us advised 
 of her state from day to day. 
 She has wonderful recuperation powers,
 and I should hope she would rally
 where apparently a stronger person 
 would succumb. 


 As to Henry, I trust, now that Jewett
 has made his point, he will make the 
 issue, and insist that one or the other shall 
 [retire?]. He will carry this, & then have 
 more peace. In haste Ever Yours 
 A. Gray


 I sent Hooker your letter speaking 
 of your being about to publish the Torreya as T. [Torreya] Californica.
        