
          for my own works?  You once promised it should be done.  Will you ask on
what terms they will allow me to deposit it with them for 5 years, a part of my
American herbarium of 2000 Species, not to be handled & broken nor burnt
but kept to look out & compare!

Have you rec'd [received] N 1 to 3 of flora Telluriana, sent you by Dr. King &
say what you thought of such a wild display of novel sagacity, which
you will pronounce premature or exuberant no doubt; but it will not be so
50 years hence!  So I am always ahead of limited knowledge.

I beg you will buy for me in New York if to be found Bentham labiata
Hooker companion, a set of Decandole, Lessing Composite, Sprengel genera
& species...  I will pay for them a fair price.  I should prefer second hand
copies.  Some members of the Lyceum may apare them perhaps.  I have the
use of some, but want to own the whole.

I have with Collins herbal 1500 species of grasses & Cyperacea [added: and 8000 duplicates]
Many new no doubt.  These I wold sell or deposit in New York upon some
conditions, and allow you to describe all the new ones, if you send me & allow
me to describe all your Trees & Shrubs.

Write me as soon as you can.

Respectfully & gratefuly [illegible] friend

C S Rafinesque
(172 Vine Street)

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Doctor John Torrey
Professor Medical College
Barclay Street
New York

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