
          Library - Sat. noon   [c. 1850]


 Dear Dr Torrey


               I received your letter
 on Tuesday on my return from
 Singsing where I preached to a 
 certain very worthy & intelligent
 audience - I have been home & from
 Thursday absolutely laid up with
 an outrageous [cold?].  Today I
 am driven out by starvation -
 I have done all that could be done
 in doors - Brackenridge included
 page 3 & all the rest lies rolled
 up on Elizas table - your Gray
 is at the college.  I can work off
 that [Brack?]. (in the style I do)
 with great rapidity - send me
 a dozen quoires if you will but
        