
          Providence Oct 30, 1869

My Dear Doct [Doctor] Torrey

Yours of 16th Oct. came duly (in reply
to mine of Sept 24&25) for which I thank you. You had
my request to answer there at leisure.

I had the Botany of the Mexican Boundary. Our
Senator Anthony gave me one when it had become
scarce as a favour of Ashbury Dickens Secretary of 
the Senate pleading that it was for a distinguished
Botanost, What a whopper!

Boott (Wm [William]) had written me that he wanted the
Botany of the Mexican and Pacific R R [Railroad] Surveys and immediately
when getting your bundle. I wrote him
I could procure them & asking him what he
would give. I have just got his reply which is
"Whipples & Emorys I should be able to get at whatever
price a Bookseller would rate them at."  Ask Westermann
what they are worth and write me or tell them to write.
I want to make them procure you as much as I can.
I should have answered this sooner but for waiting 
for this letter of Boott.

I think C. aridula [Carex aridula] My will stand up as a good
species.

Agassiz Lake Superior plant " Garben seed
from Presque Isle (and from Porter) and most of the
plants on the sheet marked C. aurea [Carex aurea] from Wilkes Ex. [Expedition]
are all probably C. mutica R Br, [Carex mutica Robert Brown], "capsules
laevebas" [?] will not apply to these
        