
          Library - Fri Morn 19 Jul. 1850


 Dear Doctor Torrey


 By your note last night I
 learned for the first time that I might write with
 the expectation of the letter finding you at Princeton;
 as you had informed me that you would be absent
 nearly all this week. This & Pat's failure to take that
 package, have been the causes of all this trouble. Fortunately
 I have sent nothing to Philada [Philadelphia] for you. I hope you found that
 proof at the Office when you mailed your last. I corrected
 it partly th[inserted: a]t night ^ [inserted: I received it] & partly next & dropped it into the Box
 at [Deupuys?] where I went expressly, as I had no stamps & they
 do not sell them at the nearest box, & I would not trust it
 without. [crossed out: Unless there has] [inserted: There [must?] have] been some delay that I know not of
 as I ^ [inserted: also] infer By your speaking of it as sent "some days ago"
 the day after I got it but Mr G. says he gave it to me the day
 it came which was Tuesday four days & 16 hours ago now. But I
 am very much troubled about what Pat should have taken 
 & now I know what to do I have broken it open & taken out the
 letter & the paper on Terminology & sent them with this & hope
 an immediate answer as I feel all unsettled; & cannot see
 how I did a thing before settling this. By the way I express no
 preference for one term rather than another (Sporangia, for instance,
 or Theca) only I want to see the thing pinned fast somewhere.
 Lacinia I am sure is correct, not for a cleft torn in a substance,
 but for a ^ [inserted: narrow shred] between two clefts. My distinction between
 Lacina & [Segmentum?], between Costula & Vena may [crossed out: not] be
 improved I think by your knowledge of Ferns. In fact there is

        