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Correspondence from Leo Lesquereux to John Torrey, dated May 23 and June 3, 1852. At the beginning of the first letter, Lesquereux laments the fact that he missed Torrey once again on his last trip to New York; he goes on to update Torrey on his current activities as part of the state gological survey of Pennsylvania, and decribes preparing his own collection of mosses for publication. He tells Torrey he plans to visit the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia soon in pursuit of Sphagnum "in fruit." The second letter, written shortly after Lesquereux's return, includes a short summary of that trip along with a much longer, more detailed narrative of an earlier collecting expedition though Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia.
Correspondence from Randolph B. Marcy to John Torrey, dated October 6, 1852, discussing the botanical specimens gathered on his recent Red River expedition, and proposing that Torrey is the botanist to analyze them.
Correspondence from Thomas Antisell to John Torrey, dated from 1853-1861. Earlier letters make frequent mention of the progress being made on volume 7 of the Pacific Railroad survey to which he and Torrey both contributed, as well as chemical experiments and the activities of other chemists and geologists of mutual acquaintance such as A.A. Hayes, G.C. Schaeffer, and C.F. Jackson. Antisell frequently voices his dissatisfaction with his government posts at the War Department and the Patent Office, and his attempts to find other employment and supplemental work lecturing at various medical colleges. Several letters are undated.
Correspondence from John Samples to John Torrey, dated July 1, 1839, introducing his young friend "Mr. Mason," and describing a few of his recent plant finds in Ohio.
Correspondence from John Torrey to Robert Benner, dated July 22, 1841, discussing arrangements for a plant collecting trip to the Catskills in early August. Torrey discusses the possibiity that Jacob Whitman Bailey might join them, and inquires as to whether his daughter might also come. The trip would furnish specimens for Torrey's ongoing work on North American flora, as well as introduce Benner to his future wife, Torrey's niece, who along with Margaret Torrey accompanied the men on the trip. The letter is accompanied by two letters outlining its provenance as a gift from Raymond H. Torrey, who acquired it from Benner's son.
Correspondence from John Torrey to John Carey, undated. A short, ebullient note congratulating Carey on a particularly tricky plant identification: "The little thing is so unike most of the order to which it belongs that I don't wonder you were puzzled with it." In celebration, Torrey writes, "I send you a queer little affair of Rafinesque's to read this evening."