
          calls at the store & inquires of Joseph how Mrs. T. is
 I find Rhynchospora Torreyana here but sparingly
 think the larger and smaller form we found
 near Marthas Furnace may be the same -
 Have you looked at them?


 My Drying
 paper is very nearly full of dried specimens
 & I shall soon have to stop collecting for
 want of room with a world of plants
 around me & within my reach and not
 a sheet of paper to put them in -


 The Compositae are just now coming on
 and I have nearly all to collect having neglected
 them last year from necessity -


 Would like very much to visit the shore for
 a day or two and collect the plants of the
 coast particularly the grasses -Mr Wm Torrey
 went away from here in poor health & today
 Mrs. Torrey received a letter stating that he
 felt quite unwell and that after the business
 of the morning he should call in Dr. Blip
 This must have been on Tuesday last - 


 His difficulty seemed to be when here
 an affection of the chest, not sufficiently acute to
 produce any apparent fever, but producing
 some disagreeable sensations in full inspiration


 Did not think his case serious when he left
 & should have treated him more promptly
        