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TO DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



NEW HAVEN, June 1, 1827. 



MY DEAR SIR, I am very glad to hear that 



your health is so much better ; but I am sure that you could 

 not have been quite done over at New Haven, or you could 

 never have written that energetic description of weakness, 

 and drawn that animated and bright picture of gloom and 

 darkness, which you gave us in the " Christian Spectator." 

 It was very well done, but it almost persuades me that I 

 was only a borderer upon the domain of dyspepsia, and that 

 I never penetrated into the heart of the empire. 



TO DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



NEW HAVEN, March 11, 1830. 



MY DEAR SIR, ..... I only glanced at Mr. Stuart's 

 geological remarks. My previous correspondence with him 

 showed me how poor a judge he is of such matters, and I 

 must include nearly all our theological gentlemen here, who 

 discover no disposition to listen to reason and evidence on 

 this subject. 



If one had health and time, it might be well to open the 

 subject ; but I have not, and I shall only talk and write as 

 I think, without regard to the obstinacy of those who will 

 neither listen nor learn. I should be very glad to see you 

 engaged with them, if your health will sustain you, but I 

 think you had better be on your guard till you are firmer. 

 I see nothing of Buckland's second volume. I am greatly 

 gratified with your favorable opinion of the chemistry. 



TO DR. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



NEW HAVEN, February 24, 1832. 



DEAR SIR, I am glad you are pleased with 



Mr. Whitney's life ; * much more might have been said, but 



enough is said to show that Mr. "Whitney and the Cherokees 



received very similar treatment ; and that the Georgia 



* Mr. Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton-gin. F. 



