
          & certainly not as much as I should have 
done, had not circumstances made a change 
in my destination in life.

I am still an admirer of nature & would 
my pecuniary circumstances admit should 
bestow much time upon botany and kindred 
sciences. I hope that there will be no bar 
to the completion of your work & that 
it may as heretofore make its appearance in 
numbers from time to time. I trust that Dr. 
Gray is usefully and pleasantly employed 
& in every respect agreeably situated. As your 
time is so much employed and my correspondence 
at this time of little value
I cannot ask you to write me. Nevertheless 
I should be pleased to hear from you.

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

Jno. [John] Torrey M.D.
        