
          months in the mountains of North Carolina, and I can safely
promise you that if I find the Shortia, I will keep on to New
York for the purpose of presenting you with specimens in propria
persona. By the way, although it may seem presumptuous in
me to say it, yet I cannot keep thinking that our good friend,
for the purpose of paying me a compliment which I am fully conscious 
of but poorly deserving, has located in the Mts. of N. Carolina,
a plant which it is quite as likely that Michaux found in Labrador
or Persia!, the “hautes montagnes” ticket might have become easily
displaced in the large collections of this extensive traveller.
However, if I should be able to get the right start I will endeavour
to “follow in his footsteps”, and it is not impossible I may
find, something. Having been so fortunate as to rediscover
the Bellis intergrifolia after Nuttall said it “had been seen by no
one since the days of Michaux”, who knows what may turn up
to me “dans les hautes montagnes de Carolinie”!

I am well pleased to hear of the prosperous condition
of your school this winter, for being myself no longer in that
line you may suppose that I am more disinterested than formerly.
If I mistake not Dr. Gross was sadly disappointed in the result of
his New York Professorship. What are the months which you spend
at Princeton?

Very truly, my dear Sir, I am yours Respectfully
C.W. Short

Profr. John Torrey.
        