
          S. Malden Mass. 31 July 1869


 Dear Dr Gray


 I suppose many of
 your "particular friends" do not
 miss you as I do, from whom
 you took leave so perfectly French
 that I leaned ][learned] your journey at your
 own door.


 I write, hoping that possibly
 Dr Torrey will know how to reach
 you ere you return and while
 you can yet arrange for the
 completion of my Prodromus. As
 the Vols. came, up to XIV, I suppose
 the bargain was for the whole
 set. Perhaps you can secue [secure?] the
 sending of the rest; for those
 wh. [which] came [crossed out: came] reached me
 through you.


 My first vol.
 is defective; the last page is 7836, but
 if I can only get the rest I woulD
 willingly copy out the missing part.


 Hope Mrs. G. will come back stronger
 than I have seen her for many a
 long year


 In haste yours I F Holton

        