
          Providence Sept 6, 1869

My Dear Doct [Doctor] Torrey

I wrote to you Aug 19 directed to Scientific 
Asso. [Association] Salem principally in regard to Doct [Doctor] Chapmans
proposed collection of Florida Plants by Fray.
Did you get that letter?

[Parry?] writes me that he is going to "Western
Kansas and Eastern Colorado."

Show him to your Herbarium and change
Parry's Plant 385 1861. from Carex incurva
so first named by Boott to "C. [fuelicta?] [su?]
Part IV.["]
by my memo I see July 23 I changed
your 545 California from C. utriculata [Carex utriculata] as
first named to C. vesicaria [Carex vesicaria] "a wise
man alters his mind a fool never doth."

Oh dear how I need the Andersen
package of Carices. Hope deferred maketh
the heart sad..

My best regards to the young ladies
of your family. Tell Miss Eliza I am
sorry she would not visit a bachelor.

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Please answer one enquiry in this letter is requested to Fray's Plants
Yours ever
Stephen T. Olney
        