
          Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. Apr 15. 1857

Prof. John Torrey

Dear Sir

I have just
recd [received] your letter of yesterday
from which it is evident that
you are not fully informed
of the relations which I [?]
to the War Dept. & the public
printer. My time is fully
occupied on the duties of
my Chair, and on making
out my own report, and [yet?]
rather than that the reports
of any of the scientific
men should go to press with 
no correction whatever. I
        