
                                                                                   Williamsport Pa. May 22nd 1869
 John Torrey M. D. 
                                Dear Sir about the 20th of March [?] I
 semt a small package of plants to you by my son on his way to the
 West India Island. I heard from him for the first time yesterday. 
 I will be happy to hear your opinions on some of the plants sent.
 and if of peculiar interest I will endeavor to collect [largely?] of them
 this season, for it will probably be the last season I collect plants
 in Pennsylvania. I have made arrangements to go south in the 
 fall having made a purchase of land two miles of Norfolk 
 Virginia. I suppose I have collected nearly all the flowering plants in
 Central Pennsylvania. I found two or three new ones at Conneaut
 Lake in the Crawford County last season and a few new plants for
 the state may be found in the Drift [Ovmation?] in the N. M. part 
 of the state. But I have been looking up the botany of the Mountain
 for the last twenty five years and find nothing of late. There may 
 be a little mix in our pines and Oaks, but I have put A. H. Smith of 
 of Philadelphia and Dr. T. L Porter of Eastern, on the track of them and they
 have promised to work there without. Theremay be some mosses 
 overlooked by mebut I think not many [Thor?] P. James  of Philadelphia
 has overhauled my collection and is made aware of the locations 
 of the rare pecies Dr. Porter has list of localitites of the rare
 grasses (and flowering plants)  

        