22 Aug 1857 [1] (seq. 627)

New York, August 22nd 1857.

Dear Doctor — On my return
from Montreal this morning, I
found your letter of yesterday.

We had a good meeting & I re=
mained till its close — which was
more than I intended to do when
I left home. The girls had not
yet arrived when took the boat
on Thursday of last week. They
must have remained two days at
Providence. I have received no
news from them since I went away.
Herbert was in time for Guyot,
& for Hastings, who accompanied
him. They started on Wednesday
evening from Montreal — intending to

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I was agreeably surprized to find
Seeman at Montreal. He came as
a delegate from the Linnean Society.
I like him for he is a good, frank, in=
=telligent man. He has started for
St. Louis & will return in two
or three weeks — when I hope to see
him in New York. I forward to
you two letters that he left in
my care.

Col. Monro {Munro}, commander of the 97 Regt.
is the grass-man whom I desired to know.
He is one of the Crimean fire-eaters & is a
right good fellow. He has a large collection
of grasses (including Bentham's set of Wright's) at
his house in Montreal. He is not quite so tho=
rough a botanist as I hoped to find him. There
was a laughable story in our Journal of Commerce
this morning — that a review, announced for a certain
day, did not come off & it was ascertained after=
wards that it was prevented by the Col. being
closeted with me, studying grasses — that "the
regiment had surrendered to a stack of hay"!

— No such thing. I was with the Col. to be sure — but the review had been postponed before
I had engaged to meet him. It is now uncertain when I will go to Cambridge —
not till the
next gold
steamer
arrives.
Much love
to Jane.
Yours ever
J. Torrey