
          Dr. J Torrey  NYC               ans Oct 17th
Philadelphia 20th Sep 1835

Recd  Dep 23

My friend.  On my return from a journey to central
Pennsyl [Pennsylvania] I find your card & that you had called in my
absence, but left no letter nor plants.  I have just found
a package of 18 plants from Florida at Dobson's left by you
without letter, but with a pamphlet of Dr. Asa Gras.

Therefor to this day I have no letter of yours, no answer to
my long letter & notes except a small note on Endistemon found
among the florida plants.  You were to give me opinions & to
return the G Carex from Mandons.  The Gentians etc I still lack.
Meantime in July I took an interesting tour in the Alleghanies
as far as the Nittany Mts.  Visiting the Mts. Kitaniny, Peters
Buttasus, Mahantanys, Tuscarora, Shads, Jack, Turkey, etc.
I went partly for my health, having had a spell of sickness in
June.  I discovered & brought many plants & fossils.  I have
a new Nuxia from the Shad Mts.  [Nuxia tomentosa] s. supertris
Brunella surea, 2 N. Lactucas etc.  A N. G. of Alga or aquatic
lichen ? just like a crustaceous Lichen but growing in water
fruitfic in knobs & wrinkles.  I'll call it [crossed out: Sepilithia} Lepidrolithis
a New Hydrangea & 3 varieties.  I shall make you up a
package of Alleghany plants, and leave them at Dobson for you.

I must try to go into the PIne barrens in a few days, as I
want the fall plants of the region, which you forgot to send me
yet I am so busy that I don't  know if I can go.  I have now
a permanent engagement for 2 days each week in the GpO
Savings Bank that I have established in May past.  And I am
printing a philosophical work on the Irritability of the physical
and moral worlds.  On Botany I have already
printed the catalogue of my Autikon, with [added: Descr of] several new
Orchidea, Umbellifera etc which I send you in the package.

Having now a hope of being able to go on with my publications,
I have prepared my monographs for the press, and am
now preparing my Mantissa Flora Bor Americ.  My history
of the American Nations will  also begin to be published next
year.  And I have other things in view.  My travels to the
Sources of Rivers Delaware, Susquehanah, Schuykill & Juniata.
My Ichthyology of the Rivers Hudson, Delaware,
Susquehana & Potomak [Potomac].  Thus you see I
have my hands full.  But I am never better pleased than
when I can thus jump from one subject to another.
        