
          Ansd [Answered] by Mr Thurber
 Oct. 1, 1855


 Boston Friday 28 Sept 1855


 Dr Torrey


 Dear Sir, Dr Bigelow
 advizes [advises] me to write you in regard [crossed out: th?] to
 the true name of the Giant Red Wood
 of California. I am about publishing a
 work on the trees of this Country, and am
 in doubt with Dr. B. [Bigelow] whether Dr Lindley has
 any right to rename this tree what you have
 already named. Hon M. P. Wilder [Honorable Marshall Pickney Wilder] and
 some other gentlemen are anxious to have
 the name of Washington in some way given to
 this tree. I have called it Sequoria 
 Gigant. [Sequoia Gigantea] Torrey. Wellington Gign [Wellingtonia gigantea] Lindley
 please give me an immediate answer as I shall
 be obliged as it is to make the [junction?] mail
 [Pan?] [Med?] R.U. Piper M.D. (Care of Boston
 Stereotype Foundery. [crossed out: B] No 4 Spring
 Lane)


 With respect
 R.U. Piper.
        