
          Dr. John Torrey     Lexington Kenty[Kentucky] 10th Jany 1821
New York

Dear friend.  The enclosed letter was to have been sent 
by a private opportunity; but was left behind by the gentleman.  I
now sent this by our common friend Dr. Lewis Beck.  I am
glad to be able to inform you that I have rec'd [received] at last your
Box of plants & Books, the first sent I mean, with the flora
Greca in it.  I am much pleased with many of your plants; a
few only are common ones.  I shall soon expect more.  I prepare
you a large collection for this spring, collected last year.

I have not heard from you for a long while.  Do write me
occasionally & send  me all kinds of news.

You will receive by mail & here this the N 1 of Western
Minerva & the Ichthyology of the Ohio.  Tell me freely what 
they think of it.  I hope you will have done what I requested
to put the prospectus in some booksellers hands for receiving
subscriptions.  Send me of course the names of the subscribers
obtained.  I send you by Dr. Beck a very singular
vegeto-mineral substance to analyze, it is found under the
roots of trees here.  Send me the properties of your Sclerotin
What do you think of the Lupulin of Dr. Ives.

I am very busy visiting & forwarding to Europe memoirs of 
Plants, Shells.  I have rec'd [received] a box contg [containing] shells, minerals
& plants from Scotland, Switzerland, Sicily, etc.

Put me in correspondence with your friend Sprengel
Ararith etc.  You may write to Swainson in my name.  He
has abandonned [abandoned] Botany to dedicate himself totally to Zoology.

Will the great costly flora of Barton succeed?

Tell me all the news - farewell - Your friend
Prof. C. S. Rafinesque
        