
          Philadelphia
July 20th 1858

Dear Doct. Torrey,

I must tell you what a capital time
I have had since I have
been let out to grass.

Durand has been over all his 
grasses with me & we have,
to use his phrase, perused
a portion of the Herbarium of
the Academy. He gives me
desirable things where they
are divisible & when not
he loans me the specimen
bodily, whetherhis own or
the Academy's. All my 
guesses about Nuttalls [Garulel [Garuleum?]?]
        