
          Teapa 27th May 1841

Doctor Torrey

D [Dear] Sir

I take the 
opportunity offered by the sailing of Capt
Powers to forward to you, consigned to the care
of my Correspondents Messrs. Goodline & Co
a box of plants, and a fine living plant, which
bears one of the most delicious fruits known in
this country, & I hope you will be able to treat
your friends to some at your own table the
ensuing year. The dry plants are not
in a very good state of preservation owing to my continued 
abscence when they required my personal attention,
added to the extraordinary state of the weather, this
day compleating twenty one days that we have not
seen the sun, a thing without example in Tabasco
in the month of May; which is generally so hot and
dry that the inhabitants carry procession their patron
Saint Señor de [Avias?], usually twice twice in this month
to insure a shower in their parched cornfields. I
fear the remarks are very incompleat, you will therefore
please to send me particular directions on this subject, I regret 
that I cannot send more, at presnt many having become black
& unfit for your purpose. Still I hope you will find some
new ones never yet described as belonging to Mexico,
        