
          New York, May 12th 1862

My Dear Professor

This will be handed to you by
my friend & former pupil A.M. Edwards
Esq. who expects to visit New Haven on
some business & wishes to make your acquaintance
with a view to ask your
advice in a project of his. I hope you
will give him a favorable hearing. Please
make him acquainted with Prof. Brush &c.[etc.]
whom I would write were it not that I am
just engaged at the Assay Office

Yours very cordially

John Torrey

Prof. B. Silliman Jr.

        