
          Cambridge [partially erased: Dec] Febry. [February] 6.


 My Dear Doctor


 I have been quite sick
 with a cold, so has Agassiz.
 A. [Agassiz] showed me a letter from 
 Dr. Stevens, your Presidt. [President] inviting 
 him to lecture, also one from 
 [Joseph] Delafield, Presdt. [President] of Lyceum. Was the 
 last [least?] intended to draw him 
 towards the opposition Medical College. 
 If so I have stopped that. 


 I think A. [Agassiz] will be obliged
 to decline lecturing in New York 
 till next year. 


 Pray tell me what you do 
 with Sarracenia heterophylla Eat. [Eaton]?
 A species? If so how characterized?


 I am greatly oppressed with work.


 Yours ever.
 A. Gray
        