
          I opened the little parcel
 you gave me, on my return 
 home, and find in it
 not only your own pretty 
 fair photograph, which I 
 have long wanted, but also 
 one from the portrait of 
 dear departed Mrs. Torrey,
 which brought back many
 tender recollections. I thank
 you most heartily for it,
 and so does Jane. It 
 will always be greatly 
 valued by both of us. Though
 Jane knew her for so short 
 a time, she appreciated her 
 greatly and retains a warm 
 interest, on her own account 
 as well from the knowledge 
 of the affection I had for 
 her and how much I 
 owed to her. 


 Adieu. Yours affectionately,
 with love to all.
 Asa Gray
        