
          if you will permit him to direct packages
to your case [care?] not only for me but for
the Philosophical Society Albany Institute
and Dr Beck. - I directed him to send
his packages for me to your case [care?] in
New York to obviate the difficulties I
have before had in getting them from
the city when they happened to arrive in
the winter.

Mr Clow will give you the same
accomodation you received when you
were here last summer but as this
weather in March will be cold and as
there is no stove in the lower room it will
be perhaps more comfortable for you
to lodge in the upper room and use my
laboratory for your study I will have
the outer room as well as the others
well cleaned and you can then put
your settee in one corner.

I have made a visit to Washington
and have procured letters from Mr Van
Buren to the ministers at London & Paris

Most Sincerely

Your obliged

Friend

Jos. Henry

[at left: Dr J. Torrey]

P.S. Joseph the carpenter
is just now putting up your [furnace?]
on the side of the larger stove

        