
          Williamsville Sept 27, 1857.


 Dr. John Torrey,


 Dear Sir,


 Your valued favour I received yesterday
 and I will not wait to aknowledge [acknowledge]
 to you my thanks and the pleasure I
 allways [always] feel by hearing from you.
 Since my departure from Cambridge, as I could
 not count with any certainty upon any work
 in the Botanical department I have been working
 with pencil, pen & colours on several plates
 fruits, flowers & animals - and I have yet
 some work on hand, wich [which] to finish necessarily
 will take some 3-4 weeks - before that time
 than I could not easily manage to come down
 to New York. I shall however soon as possible
 give you notice.


 I feel confident in your kindness wich [which] would
 furnish me according to circumstances with
 the necessary means, room & quiet to work to
 our mutual content, so that I altough [although] used and
 a friend of country life, and since we are here
 a dweller of cities for the love of art, may find
 myself, sooner at home in New York than
        