
          Providence Jany 6, 1870
Providence

My Dear Doctor Torrey

Glad to get yours of 1st [?]
A happy New Year to you and yours. My best
regards to all your family.

Sorry to see you alter "stop a day in Providence
going & coming" to "or" Shall be pleased to have you as long as you will stay.

Observed the Superintendent was in trouble.
There are few public officers so free from [stares?]
as was this late Secretary of War. Thank God
the faults of stealing does not belong to me. It
is inlaid in constitution of some and such
are to be [?] for the crime.

Thank you for writing to Prof [Professor] Hall to send me 
the Hayden Carices.

No we don't make New Years calls in Providence
nor should I nake them it were the custom. [?]
good Doct [Doctor] Torrey, you [?] as if I thought myself
a young bean, not an old fellow of nearly 58.

Take no pains to hunt for my letter of 30th Oct.
It informed you that I had tried to sell for [gain?]
the Pac. [Pacific] RR. [Railroad] Botany so far without success
        