
          I have once or twice begun a letter 
 to Mrs. T. [Torrey], but a thousand distracting 
 interruptions have cut me short.


 Lowell was going to order, through me, not
 only Schkuhr's Ferns, etc., but Trinius
 Icones [Species] Graminum & old Host Icones 
 Graminum [Icones et descriptiones graminum austriacorum] also.


 AG.
        