
          I thank you for your offer to bear a portion
of the expense of transporting the plants, but
it was small & I beg you will not think
of it. Yours very truly
J.C. Frémont

Upon Official Business
Bureau Top. Engs. [Topographical Engineers]
J.J. Abert
Col. Corps [?]

Dr. John Torrey,
Princeton
New Jersey
        