
          Laurence Ville Mercer Co. N.J. Feb 27th 1854
Dr. Torrey,
Dear Sir,

Your kind favor of the 8th
was recured in dire course and for the enclosed specimens please
accept my thanks. I am always glad to receive anything in the
botanical line from abroad and shall look for the "small parcel"
through Dr. Schinch, with no little interest.

If Dr. Short has any thing to part with I shall esteemm it 
a great favor if you mention my name to him. I cant help
feeling much regret thus anyone who pretends to love the science
of Botany should not love honesty and virtue more.
I have collected but little this winter, cold and storms preventing 
my going out with any hope of succcess.
I am under obligatinos to you for the information in relation
to the Books on Fungi. I shall order them as soon as I can.

I have made arrangements to leave here and go to 
Philadelphia on the first of April nect where you [added: will] please
address me whenever you write after this time. I am 
going as Book Keeper with Burton & Laning No 124
Arch Street.

Your books pamphlets, Algae mosses and Lichens I will 
put up and forward to Dr. Schinch Princeton. Were it not 
asking to muc of you would like tor etain your Copy of
Hooker and Taylor a little longer. I have endeavored
to procure myself a copy but thus far have not be[en] able to do so.

For the use of tehre as also for the very many favors I have
        