
          Saturday Evening 7 o'clock.


 Dear Doctor. 
 I have just received, 
 through Mrs. T. [Torrey] an intimation of 
 your wishes relative to the Liby [Library] of 
 Useful knowledge &c. I write this 
 hurried note this evening to say that 
 it will give me pleasure (in this [crossed out: and]
 [crossed out: every] case and always) to attend to such 
 little commissions, or in any way to 
 further your desires. I cannot exchange 
 the nos. [numbers] until Monday morning, and I fear 
 Mr. Douglass will return to [too] early to take 
 it with him. If so I will send it 
 by mail. Mr. Shepard, I find has packed
 up nearly all your apparatus at the
 Lyceum Lecture-room. I sent the 
 Evening Post containing a flattering 
 notice of the Geological Reports. I will 
 endeavour to send you the papers as regularly 
 as possible. For the short time 
 that remains. it is, I presume. hardly 
 worth while to have the  Conn. [Connecticut] Advertiser 
 forwarded from the office. A 
 foreign letter arrived for you, I think 
 is from Arnott. I hope it contains 
 something about Torreya! By 
 the way, we shall want copy for
 the Annals from you very soon, but 
 we will talk of that when you come 
 on. Your Asters have arrived
        