
          I get along very slowly with my Mon. [Monograph] of American
[crossed out: Cyperacae] [added: Carices]. I shall not go any where [?]
until I get a skeleton of it completed.

Thank you for your kind invitation
even though you threaten to banish me
to "Texas" if I come.

The boys thank you for your kind
invitation. Their visits must be deferred until warmer weather and Miss [Seurlt?]
thanks your kind remembrance.

My regards to the young ladies this
[?] T. & with kind feelings.

I am truly yours
Stephen T. Olney

To Prof John Torrey
New York
        