
          is over, and long before I am done with the 
 printer, where I am pledged to keep one compositor 
 employed: so that you had best come here. Bring
 Herby, by all means. Nor can I leave the garden 
 at this season, and farther I have been obliged to
 advance so much for Sprague, who has not even yet 
 finished the 1st hundred of drawings for Genera, that I
 actually should find a difficult to make the journey to P. [Princeton] 
 and back. I have been wishing to go to New York on 
 business, but have concluded to try to manage otherwise. 
 So it is not that my desire to see you all at Princeton 
 is not very strong, but that practically I cannot leave 
 here without great difficulty at present. 


 Carey I think will soon leave me. I trust you will 
 come and take his room, or at any rate there is another 
 for you. I want your aid in contrivance for a new 
 study &c. that I think of adding to the present, Cases
 for collection, [amph?] for the future, as well as room for
 botanists & small classes to work in. 


 I have been concerned on Miss L.'s account. She 
 has been quite sick, but is now recovering though rather
 slowly. Love to Mrs. T. [Torrey] and the girls.
 Are Maggy's eyes well yet?  Yours very cordially
 Asa Gray


 Carey and George send kind regards.
 A.G.
        