
          full pay & rations & £300 a year to spend in botanizing 
on shore. If God spares his health he will do
great things, especially in the Himalaya mountains &
in Borneo. He will have 3 or 4 collectors, besides
what his own hands can do, & that is no little.

Mrs. McGilvay you will have heard before this time is the
happy mother of a little girl & under Mr. Greene's roof. Lady
Hooker is well & sends affectionate regards to you. Our
daughter Elizabeth you will be glad to know has lost
[crossed out: her cough] her cough.

It occurs to me that you may in some way aid our 
Botanical Museum in the Royal Garden, a Museum which
may be called "Museum of Oeconomic Botany."  Five or £10
I should be glad to expend on interesting N. Am. [North American] "vegetable products."
Can you also send me a Catalogue of a good seedsman
who has Acorns, Pine Cones, & seeds of other forest trees &c, fresh
& good; both of the Northern & Southern States. I want very
large Ears of Indian Corn (for Museum) & I want the ergot of Indian 
Corn for do. &c &c &c. Yours truly affect. [affectionate] friend
W. J. Hooker.

I should indeed be greatly obliged to you if
you would order me from a good nurseryman
£10 worth of seeds (oaks, pines &c, especially
of the Southern states for cultivation,
& trees of all kinds [peculiar?] to N. America, & large
shrubs such as [?][?] from seed.

Paid 1/0

Dr. Torrey
Professor of Chemistry
& Botany

Princeton
New Jersey
U.S.A.

        