
          My time of trial draws near. A week from Tuesday I 
 begin. There has been a pretty brisk application for tickets. 
 But I have yet very much to do. My two last lectures are
 not even blocked out upon paper. Many pictures are yet to 
 be made. And I shall have a busy time indeed until they are 
 all delivered. The end will be a deliverance indeed. Yet strange 
 as it may seem, my spirits are rather on the rise: though 
 I will not answer for them for 10 days longer. 


 I have written an introductory which, with a few more touches, 
 I shall be satisfied with. And some of my lectures which have 
 least illustrations, such as that on food & nutrition _ are 
 pretty carefully written out. I have contrived a diagram 
 illustrating the cycle of relations of 3 kingdoms, which I think 
 is capital (as it is quite original) and which I long to show you. 
 If I had three months more, I am convinced I could put my 
 materials into the form of a capital course of lectures. 


 As soon as you have finished your lectures, will you 
 kindly send me the College drawings, and also your own, those 
 I had last year, as there is quite a number of them I shall 
 want to use in my College Course 


 How glad I am to hear that Mrs. T. [Torrey] has so far recovered, 
 But she must be exceedingly careful or she will be down 
 again as low as ever. I am glad the boys are off at last:
 but fear Mrs. Torrey's exertions about it will have brought her 
 down again. 


 I sent you the Puritan chiefly for the brief report of President 
 Hopkins lectures: which I hear have been deemed very interest=
 ing. I daily expect 8th Vol. [Volume] of DC. prodr [De Candolle's prodromus], at Wiley & Putnams.
 The [added: printed] sheet I send you by mail, with this, will best answer your 
 enquiries as to its contents, as also of the ensuing volumes. Please 
 send it back to me, in the tin box, as I have no other copy. 


 As to Kunze's Continuation of Schkuhr for Dewey, I ordered 
 the first no. [number] for him, & on sending that. I think asked him 
 if he would have the ensuing as they appeared, As mine is a 

        