
          Dr. John Torrey                                                Philadelphia 22d. April 1830
N.Yk.

My good friend.  Your winter labours must now be
ended and as I wish to have another Botanical interview with
you this summer, I now write you on this & other matters.
I heard last fall that you had come to Philada [Philadelphia] for one day
only ! or rather been recalled as soon as arrived by your wife
illness, without even calling on me.  I mean to travel this year
for one month to the North & eyv [even] perhaps as far as Lake Champl [Champlain]
I mean to stay 2 weeks in New york & I wish to ascertain whether
I will find you there & when that I may take my measure
to meet you again:  it would be convenient for me to go between 
the 15th of June & the 15th of August.

I am writing now the 2d & last vol. [volume] of my medical flora &
have made arrangements to publish it this year.  I have modified
my plan a little, altho' I will give 48 plates thus completing
100.  I mean to indicate all the Med. [medicinal] plants of the 
United States, and perhaps to add an appendix of all the N. G. [new genera]
& N. Sp [new species] I have published in Amer. & Europe to this year
belonging to North Amer:  with references to their synonyms etc.
It is in this chiefly I want your assistance.  I want to ascertain
all those that have been adopted & by whom.  I often hear of
some being taken up when they are at a loss for a name.
Thus I have lately seen my genus Adlumia of 1807 for the
Fumaria cirrhosa, adopted  in London Cyclopedia of Plants.
Now I think that I have established 150 better generic distinctions
that the Adlumia.  As for my G. [genus] & Sp [species] not adopted I shall
merely state the year when discovered & published so as to
secure my future claims, and time will do me justice, if my 
friends will not, and my names being always good! will
find favour when bad names will be revised or eliminated.

I had promised to give you my monography of Amer. Roses
of 1820, which you had not.  I will bring it to you with many other
this summer.  I have perused with much pleasure your Essay
on the Oregon Plants or Rocky Mts [mountains]; but unfortunately the copy
you gave me is defficient missing from N 10 to 52.  You must 
give me another complete.  I have seen with regret that by your
over caution you have described many plants under doubtful
        