
          Consulate U.S.A Campeche 14th Jany. 1833

Professor Torrey. Dear Sir, Two days ago we were very cold 
as Farenheit [Fahrenheit] pointed at 66° being 4° degrees colder than any other morning
this winter but now at 4 PM I am writing in my summer
dress with the mercury at 78°. It is very pleasant I assure
you to be eating daily the vejetables [vegetables] which you will not taste
in five or six months to come - when I hope to join you
in a bowl of strawberries and milk. No vessel has sailed
or will sail soon directly to New York and I dare not trust
any thing by indirect conveyance, so you will be so good as to
wait for your grasses until you get them. I have a tolerable
collection of the flowering plants so far, and they will shortly be more
abundant. I am improving in health and happiness, the only
thing that much troubles me being the news just recd. [received] from Carolina.
I have recd. 9received] a long letter from J Dubose of Cape Florida which is very
encouraging to my enterprize. Plntains, Bananas, Oranges, Limes,
&c. [etc.] being already growing there; and Captain [Bishurp?] who was at the
Cape in May last year is now here so that I have tolerable dates to 
[firm?] my openess. In haste very respy [respectably] yr [your] obt[obedient] sevt [servant]

H Perrine
        