
          [in pencil: Dec-1845]


 Tuesday morn.


 My Dear Friend,


 I have just time for a line
 to notify you that I send a little
 parcel (paid) addressed to you at Med.
 Coll. [Medical College] to-day. It contains some little
 things for the girls.


 My misgivings about the Fremont's [John Charles Frémont]
 Report sent to [William Jackson] Hooker by the Clerk of House of
 Reps [Representatives] are confirmed, as you will be sorry to
 learn. In a letter from Hooker, after thanking
 me for Lindheimerianae [Plantae Lindheimerianae] he continues-- "I wish
 our friend Dr. [John] Torrey had adopted an equally economical
 mode of sending me on the Report of Fremont's
 Journey. He kindly ordered an official copy to be
 sent to me, and it certainly bore an official superscription,
 but the privilege of franking unfortunately extended
 no farther than the Amer. [American] boundary, and being
 sent by steamer from Boston & posted, it came to the
 agreeable sum of £3.15. This is the more vexing
 because parcels come free to me in the mail-steamers, out of
 the mail, etc. etc. On the same day I
        