
          I thank you very kindly for having
so promptly complied with my request in regard
to the daguerreotype, and I will be obliged to you
to have it safely enveloped, and left at the Harpers,
directed to Morton & Griswold, Louisville, Ky, for
me. By our friend Dr. Silliman Jr. who will
be returning East early in March, I will send
you my beautiful face. I hope, however that
it will be a better looking thing than the Boston
artist made of me, which my wife begged me not
to leave for Gray, declaring that it made me look
“crosser than I really was.”

I am, indeed, delighted to hear from
you that there is some prospect of Mr. Carey's return
to reside in this country again. Can we 
do anything to influence him in this movement?
You speak of a brother of his, living a short distance
from New-York; and he has mentioned to me a 
brother who had some taste for botany. Is this 
the merchant at 90, Pine Street?

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