
          Waterbury Connt. [Connecticut] March 25th 1846

My dear Sir

I suppose you will soon complete 
the Flora of the State of N. York. When 
published you will confer on me a signal 
favour by transmitting me a copy. It 
may be left in the care of Mr. C.S. Sperry 
no. 168 Pear Street N.Y. I observe that Gray 
& Engleman [Engelmann] have published in the Boston 
Journal of Natural History an account 
of new Texas plants. It would gratify me 
to receive that no. of the work if you can 
transmit it to me without inconvenience.

I hope the time with soon come when both 
yourself & Dr. Gray will have leisure to prepare 
your great work on American plants for the press.

I often regret that I am not in a way to aid 
you more than I have done & I would most 
willingly do more than I have, had I a field 
to labour in & could I do it without loss 
to myself. A botanist with the Army 
in Texas would have a fine opportunity 
to extend our knowledge of the flora of that 
interesting

I remain verry [very] truly 
yr [your] friend M.C. Leavenworth

John Torrey M.D.
        