
          now here. I only ask you to come as soon 
 as you can, in the hope that you will give 
 her, and yourself, some time here. 


 We will talk over the Botany matters 
 when you come. After you left Sprague was 
 away, a good-deal, and since I have been 
 obliged to keep him at work with some 
 things like to pass by in the garden. He 
 will now finish up 4 of your drawings, to be 
 sent to Prestele. But if you come this week 
 perhaps I will keep them till your arrival. 
 Thanks for the Mem. [Memoir] about the Vesicaria.
 I suppose then I must let it past as new. 


 I must leave a little room for Mrs. 
 T. [Torrey]. P.S. She was getting on finely till 
 a day or two since, but like yourself, 
 the moment she gets a little strength, she is 
 too much inclined to dissipate it by hard work. 
 I think it better economy to accumulate a 
 little stock of vigor.


 Adieu
 Yours faithfully 
 A. Gray
        