
          Should you find leisure to write I should
be extremely happy to hear from you & shall [continue?]
to furnish what little offerings I can find in the
way of curiosities & [?] or mineral
Accept assurances of esteem & respect
I am truly your obt sevt
Gilbert Hulse

Dr. John Torrey
New York
City

Thermometer at 74 degrees & the weather [?] summer
regulaiton. My forward equal to [?] N.Y.
River nearly full & [stating?] [?] [?]
of an overflow which would [?] the prospects
of many [plants?] this season
Yours
G Hulse

The box [?] sent by the
[shep/shess?] Republican [?]
from N.Y. I [?] must
        