
          Manchester July 26th 1842

My Dear Friend.

Mr Wm Torrey has been here for
a few days and is to start at 12 Oclock today for
NY. via Princeton. I feel to sympathize with you, for
the affliction in your family (In the case of your little
son) but hope it may not be incurable. I am still
here & my family at Oriskany. Live very comfortably here
with the exception of being so long absent from my family

Mr Wm Torrey informs me you have orders for me for
a small amount which I wish could be used for
bringing my family here. Should have written you
before but expected you here every week since [JW?] Brown
came.

I wish if you cannot come here soon to inform 
me immediately what those [word obscured by library stamp: orders?] call for that I may
answer them promptly. have received a letter from
Prof. Carpenter since I left here. has had some sickness,
and a death in his family (a little son.) consequently his
Botanical pursuits have been a little interrupted.

How is Dr. Gray getting along with his little book on
Botany? When is he going to fill his Professorship to
which he has been recently appointed? Will you have the
goodness to bring me down when you come a suite of 
plants collected about Princeton such as I have not got?
any rare Carices would be very acceptable. Dr Sartwell
has nearly recovered from his illness of last Spring so that
he is able to pursue his Professional business with little 
inconvenience. I have just received a box of seeds of Carices
which mislaid which I very much wanted to fill out Prof [Kinze's?] suite
        