
          Ebenezer near Buffalo. May 15th 1856
Prof. John Torrey

Dear Friend, My last letter of 7th inst. I 
hope will have reached you & [added: now] I have again to inform you that
I have received to day a letter of A.G. Seaman of
Washington in which he stated me that my proposal
is accepted for my engraving the Botanical Plates to
$10 each and that I may procure myself with stones
necessary from James Ackerman of New York.
I suppose you will have sent my bill now to him
Please let me know by return mail, if [added: it is necessary that] I also shall sent
him one or not.
I also willl mention here, that you expressed once the wish
in your first letter to me when ou was at Princeton College
in the year 1846, to learn something of my spiritual principals
because I never was able to do so, because I have the english
language not in my command like you, to explain it that
you may all well understood. But some time since there occured
that our Society, to which I am joined was calumniated and
many palpable false hoods spread over the Country that it was
forced to make a publication to display a correct view of herself,
and because I owe you something in this part I send you today
a News paper by mail in which you will please find this
article about the Society & [added: there is my] religious principals, meanwhile 
I remain
Your sincere friend
Jos. PRestele
        