
          Recd. [Received] May 17, 1849

Royal Gardens
Kew, April 13,
1849.

My dear Dr. Torrey

I do not know that
I ever recieved [received] so interesting
a collection of
plants as what you
have sent me from the 
"far west."  There is more
of rarity & of novelty
than I ever recieved
from N. [North] America before,
& I trust collectors
will still be busily
employed in New
Mexico & California &
in Texas. But I shall
        