
          And Augt. 3rd

Oriskany July 29th 1840

Dr. Torrey.

Dear Sir your letter dated 25th & 27th & mailed
28th Inst. came to hand this afternoon but too
late to return an answer by the evening mail.
I will endeavour to send this tomorrow morning
and if I cannot succeed to send to Utica
by 9 oclock A.M. it will go in the afternoon 
and so go a day or a night later. On 23rd inst
the package of books 3 & 1/2 copies of the Flora
and 3 copies of Report & a letter dated June 29th
[?] On the 24th I wrote a letter in reply
to yours & directed it to Princton N. J. as
directed in yours but which it appears you
had not received at the date of your last.
(Indeed you could not have received it if you had been
at Princeton then) In that letter I mentioned
that I would find horse & waggon of my own
and would meet you at any place you
might mention.

But since you have
in some measure altered you propositions
I think it will be well to change the course 
a little. If you cannot conveniently leave
home to go the proposed route I will do
the best I can to go along. I am rigging up
a horse of my own & a waggon of my neighbors'
with suitable aparatus for the tour. Would
it be convenient [added: or profitable] for you to come to Oriskany
and go with me to Chenango PA? and there leave?

        