
          My Dear Dr. Torrey

You doubtless recollect
meeting me in the missionary rooms N.Y. [New York]
in May 1835 & sending love & a book by me
to Hutchings & asking me to send you plants
&c. I have never forgotten your cheerful
face & voice, nor yet your request & am
now truly glad to get the [?], (my much
bored companions in the good work & I may
say in tribulation too) to take charge of a 
collection of the plants of S. [South] India
made by W. Elliott Esq, of the Madras
Civil Service, & presented to me some
months since. Should you find them
worth acknowledgement, I shall be glad
to have you send a word of the kind to
Mr. Elliot. I regret much I have
had no time to attach what few names
I could make out but as you will received
rather as a collection, than an arranged
herbarium, & as you doubtless will know
most of the plants, its value will not be
so much lessened with you.

I [have?] tied up a small collection
of my own, in newspapers, & enclosed
it with the others which I will thank
you to send my nephew Chad hall
care of Rev. C.H. of A.H.M.S. Also 2
or 3 of the sticks marked with their names

        