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Correspondence from John Eatton Le Conte to John Torrey, dated July 9, 1852, in which Le Conte informs Torrey that "some of your friends" wish to campaign for Torrey to be offered "the vacant professorship in the University." (The university in question is not specified.) Le Conte says that the group wishes to confirm ahead of time that, were the position offered, Torrey would accept.
Correspondence from John LeConte to John Torrey, dated 1857. A letter of introduction for a Dr. E.B. Turnipseed, newly returned from service with the Russian Army.
Correspondence from John L. LeConte to John Torrey, dated April 3, 1866. LeConte tells Torrey that Charles E. Smith has several specimens of Tipularia for him, if he would like them; then goes on to describe the oil prospecting exploits of his friend Jonathan Letterman in California and asks Torrey to inquire of "the grease men in New York, who deal in oil stocks" how and where he might go about selling stock in the Philadelphia and California Petroleum Company, on Letterman's advice.
Correspondence from John Torrey to Amos Eaton, dated 1818, discussing the distribution of Eaton's books to booksellers; the difficulty of identifying a shipment of specimens Eaton recently sent ("You send me such poor specimens of your plants that if I did not know them well I should have never been able to determine them"); work on Eaton's Manual; and other botanical matters, as well as Torrey's recent graduation from medical school: "I have now got my sheepskin & have full powers granted me to kill & destroy in any part of the earth-- I expect soon to open an office in the City." The second document is titled "Remarks on Eaton's translations of Acharius," with notes on a number of lichen genera; it is undated, and may have originally been enclosed with the letter. Unresolved plant names mentioned include Smyrnium aureum.
Correspondence from Daniel Cady Eaton to John Torrey, dated 1856-1860, discussing botanical specimens and endeavors, particularly in the realm of Eaton's specialty, ferns. Eaton regularly visits Gray in Cambridge and keeps Torrey abreast of his work with Gray and of the plants coming in from all points, largely from the many government-sponsored expeditions of that period. As well as books, the two periodically exchange numbers of the German journal Linnaea.