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moderate wishes would require no very large sum, and 

 I have 110 great desire to be rich. 



Tell father I am very glad he has brought home the 

 remainder of those boxes from Utica. The burning 

 down of one of the buildings of the gymnasium has 

 broken up that school entirely, and it probably will 

 not be revived. I knew Mr. Bartlett would fail soon, 

 and that accident has only hastened the time a little. 

 He has been insolvent for some time. There was a 

 very severe fire within a few rods of us last week ; 

 five or six dwelling-houses and other buildings were 

 burned to the ground. Although it was so near us we 

 were sitting at tea entirely unconcerned. Everything 

 is done by the fire companies, and people who crowd 

 about fires are only in the way, without doing any 

 good. 



Let me hear from you soon, and you will hear from 

 me again in due season. The lectures in the Medical 

 College will be finished in about three weeks, and 

 then I shall be a little more at leisure. 



I am very affectionately yours, 



A. GRAY. 



TO HIS FATHER. 



NEW YORK, April 6, 1835. 



DEAR FATHER, I have been waiting for some 

 time to see what my plans for the season would be, 

 expecting as soon as that point was determined to 

 write to you. All my arrangements were upset last 

 fall, and the prospects for daily bread have been rather 

 dark all winter that is for the present ; for the 

 future they look as well as I could expect. It is 

 probable now that I shall remain here during the sum- 

 mer ; prosecuting the same studies and pursuits in 



