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 Middleburg Vt 12 March 1857


 Dear Doctor Torrey


 I was glad to
 get your letter night before last.
 I am glad to see that you rise early.
 I do sometimes. This morning for instance
 day was streaking the
 east as I was streaking it down it down
 the hill from the hotel, the grade
 being too steep & the track too slippery
 to allow me to put on the
 breaks. It is nipping cold & I wish
 I had some of the nice warm things
 that I laid in for this emergency
 & wh. [which] are still in N.Y. waiting the
 RR & Leroy. You too are sufferers
 in that; for in that ton of miscellany
 lies somewhere my Catalogue of 
 Granada plants. In 24 hours after
 its arrival you shall have the
 list of Bignoniates and in due
        