
          Ansd. Dec. 25


 San Francisco Nov A.D. 1836


 Dr. Torrey


 Dear Sir


 It affords me
 much pleasure to communicate with you
 upon matters of mutual interest.


 Some years since I called to make
 your personal acquaintance, but you were
 absent. I had at that time some drawings of 
 both new & rare plants altho [although] at that time I did
 not know it myself but they have since been
 published.


 You wish copies from my drawings. I will
 send them at any time, if my duties will
 permit my making them, they are now
 most of them at the Smithsonian Institution
 & some are in the hands of Dr. J.S. Newberry.
 These are drawings of all the cucurbits of
 which I have sketched i.e. three
 (I am not right sure of sending more that
 two species) there are many varieties
 here of the Megarrhiza, evidently some
 of those enumerated in your letter. My
 Mara I think quite distinct, the drawing
 is as above stated at Washington at this
 time. I send by Dr. Andrews last summer
        