
          Recd. May 24

Providence May 22, 1869

My Dear Doct [Doctor] Torrey

Thank you for your kind letter of the 17th
[this?]. You did not answer one of my enqueries 15th [this?] ...
The 14 [in.?] Doct [Doctor] Torrey asked me if he should send me
the Smithsonian Carics [Carices] to arrange. I answered yes and
by [?] not all at once. 21st he writes as I
had probably seen them which with you he should
not send as I had not seen them, I write this evening
urging him to send them as I have leisure [now?]. Confirm
him in this, so doing, if you please. They will be
useful when I get ready to begin my monograph of
N. American Carex.

I have enlisted him to watch for any Swedish
package and he sends me a message from Doct [Doctor] [Bank?]
relative to it.

Presuming that the kind hands that aid you have
got your Carics [Carices] all nicely glued down and handy to
refer to: will you turn to vesicariae [Carex vesicariae] (29 [group?]) and
send me by Express the following (at my expense)

C. saxatilis US. Puc. Ex Ex. [Carex saxatilis]
grahamii [Carex grahamii][?] [?] Doct [Doctor] Graham
physocarpus [Carex physocarpa] Rocky Mts T. Drummond
compacta [Carex compacta] R Br. Arctic Region Doct [Doctor Richardson]
compacta [Carex compacta] R Br. Bear Lakes Doct [Doctor Richardson]
compacta [Carex compacta] R Br Hudson Sound Dot [Doctor?] [Avnott?]
rotundata [Carex rotundata] Lapland [Haneman?]
purpurea [Carex purpurea] Boott Ill. 514. Rocky Mts T. Drummond
[Bengardiana?] Rocky Mts. Nuttalll Col. R. No. 6.

I will return them very shortly
        