
          Dr. J. Torrey N Yk

Philadelphia 20th March 1938

Recd March 24

My good friend.  Yr [Your] letter of 25th Jany [January] was delivered by Dr. Gray
quite lately with the 3 small pamphlets.  I now send you some pamphlets
of mine also, in which you will see that I have been engaged in various labors
for a year past, and it is a wonder that I could attend to Botany all the while as an
amusement & relaxation.  If you knew all what I have to attend to last year in order
to bring forth at last my great labors, and prepare the means for future activity
in the midst of pecuniary difficulties and disappointments.  But with zeal &
patience I overcome all at last, & I have long ago concluded 600 pages of my
Suplemental Flora & Flora Telluriana or 6 parts.  If I had note undertaken
these 2 works together, the first would have been completed ere now, but will be ere
1840.  As it is quite a Mantissa & you do not admit my improvements we shall
not clash in the least.  But between 10 & 20 years hence you will admit of all my
discoveries & N. G. as you now begin to do for those of 1808 & 1825.  A copy of the 
Flora telluriana has been laying for you at Dr. John King corner of Burton & Beach
Street N. Yk for some months.  When I hear of any thing for me I hasten to get it.
You have subscribed in one of yr [your] letters for 2 to 6 copies of these two floras.  I now sell
them together only at $5 for 6 parts to subscribers.  I send you 2 copies of New fl
& another fl. Tellur.  6 parts by Dr. Gray, and shall send as many more as you may
require, which you will pay for at your Convenienc or exchange for your own Flora
of which I will also take 2 copies at least, if it is not an expansion Book like the Reptiles
of N. Amer now selling for $40! for 100 Sp. while I give 4000 Gen & Sp for $10.

Have you compared the 2 Conifers of Florida with one in Bartram & one of
Louisiana with slender branches?  Are they really 4?  I know Amphicarp -- ea
of DC.  See my Monograph & 3 subgenera flora  A, ea, eus, um, cum, is es, ies
Etc are all latin terminations & gramatical constructions, not for names, see L.

I saw Leimanthium of Wild in 1902, was it published before?  & why did you not
adopt it in 1823?  Amianthum of Gray 1837 is my Gusposma of 1802 obs. & asurt
published 1825.  My Cyanotris is the Lemotris or Scilla esculenta of a diff [different] family
I changed the name when I met a Var.[variety] with white flowers! yet Gray has united them.

You are greatly mistaken abt [about] Collins Herb but I wish you had been the appraiser
of it instead of Dr. Pickering who made me pay $150 for it.  I have no objections to
give or sell all the new Cyperacea at 50 cts [added:each] if you only can pick them out.  I do not pretend
yet to be fully skilled in that family as you; but when I study & publish I am.  Thus
I have delayed many monographs for further light, but have given enough to show
what I can do.  I am now leaving botany for awhile & am printing the Celestial
Philosophy of Hershell & others.  I must go this summer to Illinois to survey & lay
out a City with the foundations of 5 colleges to form a Central University.  I shall keep you
informed of my doings, that way & send you our Bulletins.  We shal receive Books,
apparatus, plants, minerals & Labor, in exchange for Land & Lots.  I shall again botanize
in the West & mean to settle there between 1845 & 1850 giving all my collections & books
to it, receiving Land for it which I shall dedicate to perpetual benefits.

Mess. [messieurs] Cooper, Halley, Leconte etc ought to subscribe or buy my 2 floras.  I mean to send a
circular to European & American Botanists to make it known.  I have published so many
works that I dont know which you lack yet.  I send most of them & a list to the Lyceum
        