
          Rec'd [Received] Jan'y [January] 16th

Columbus Jany. [January] 10th 1839

Doct. John Torrey,

Dear Sir-- Yours of the 4th inst. [instant]
has just come to hand mentioning the receipt of the draft
about the safe arrival of which, I had become uneasy &
wrote you on the 2nd inst. [instant]. You must not be alarmed
at my writing to you so frequently. I shall try and be
more forbearing in future. Your time is no doubt
much taken up by such neophytes as myself. But you should 
recollect this in one of your "penalties." However I shall not 
let the "quid pro quo" of the matter be entirely out of right,
but hoe some day, for my conscience' sake, to do to others, (if
I can not to you) as I have been done by. As tot he Books--
I have in addition to the list I sent you, Pursh [Frederick Pursh] 2 vols. & Decandolle's [Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]
Prodromus 6 first vols.-- the subsequent parts I wish procured. I
am not able to designate any particular works and will only
say that works having a bearing on North American Botany 
generally together with some [crossed out: works] works on the Musci & its [congenes??]
would be very acceptable. Sir Wm Hooker's [William Jackson Hooker] Flora Boreali Ameri'a [Flora Boreali-americana] 
is not doubt an important addition to my library on our Botany.
But Doct'r Gray [Asa Gray] is the best judge under all the circumstances
and any thing he may procure for me, I will be most
perfectly satisfied with, and very thankful for his kindness.
Your purpose of selecting for me some specimens of Cyperaceae
&Gramineae gives me such pleasure, & I shall find
        