
          [above the address, on the upper fold of the page:
 Edward Hitchcock
 Jany. 15th 1820
 ?1821.]


 [on the center fold of the page above left of the address:
 Recd Jany. 24, 1821
 Is there a mistake in the
 date? or had the person who
 [?] in the N. Y. Post-Office carried
 the letter in his pocket a
 whole year?]


 John Torrey M.D.
 New York
 City]

        