
          [on the page fold above the address:
 hunter - nothing can escape him. His diligence on the eve of the worlds
 destruction shows the ruling passion strong. He has been astonishly
 industrous for two years. You probably recieve localities from him
 He has no idea of Structural Botany & ^ [inserted: knew nothing of the Nat. Syst.] before I showed him Lindley. He now
 keeps his plants in piles each pile corresponding with a no of your Flora
 & arranged exactly with it. He is a man of very patient research & the
 best Greek Testament scholar I know. What do you say of Liebigs
 Animal Chemistry? I have read that & the Agricultural Ch. I think he
 has opened a wide field for you but does he not speculate too far.
 What do you think of Kanes? I have scarcely been able to examine]


 [on the center fold of the page:
 Hillsgrove Ills
 7th August


 John Torrey M.D.
 Princeton
 N.J.]


 [crosswise on the left page fold opposite the address:
 Where ought things to be left
 for you in N.Y.? I hope to send
 a few plants this week to the care
 of Chilton Broadway.]  


 [on the page fold below the address:
 it but think it better than Turner even.
 Do not feel bound to answer my loquacity but in the briefest style.
 I am anticipating a speedy answer & hope it will reach here before I
 leave this region. I hope you will be obliged to call in Mrs T's aid to
 make out as full sheet as before. You have no idea how much pleasure
 it gave me. If Herbert Gray has lived through this past July without a
 return of the attack you will have the strongest hopes. I hope
 it has proved so. You did not mention Margaret. I hope she is [crossed out: illegible]
 well. I am sorry I have forgotten their Aunt Jane's name. Is she still
 at Madura? I am forwarding for my brother just now & I close the principal
 part of this this 4 August  Yours Ever  I. F. Holton


 P.S. Dr Mead has sent you some numbered specimens from me & some
 others I believe a Siphium perfoliatum I have just found. I will save some.
 [crossed out: [?]] I think you will get this before Mr Tinsley calls at W & P's.


 Direct to Hillsgrove Mr Donough Co Ill.]
        