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edition can be sold good or bad, and if popular, it will 

 be a permanent source of profit." * You see, matters look 



up Direct to me at 86 William Street, New York, 



care of David Ely. Remember me to all friends. Show 

 this letter to nobody but brother Day, and lose no time in 

 going to work on our new book. I will return as speedily 

 as possible ; will repeat the analysis and analyze every 

 separate part. You don't know how keen the world this 

 way are for meteors. Perkins told me that the publica- 

 tion was received with great favor in New York, and that 

 no occurrence had, in his recollection, excited such general 

 interest. It is late, so good-night. 



Yours affectionately, 



DIOPETES. 



The annexed letter makes mention of his mode of 

 living and of the labors in which he was engaged. 



TO MR. G. S. SILLIMAN. 



YALE COLLEGE, December 5, 1807. 



I HAVE a complete equipment of every article 



requisite for breakfast and tea, arranged in a large new 

 closet in one of my studies, and it is now four weeks that I 

 have taken my breakfast and tea in my own chamber, with 

 more economy of time, addition of comfort, and indepen- 

 dence, than I can describe, and with very little additional 

 trouble or expense. My little writing-desk lies open on 

 a stand on the right of the fire, and on the right of 

 that is a table for my books in immediate use. I have 

 now the accommodations and respectable establishment of 

 a genteel, literary man, and I have no thoughts at present 

 of leaving my state of celibacy. The publication of the 

 chemical text-book, of my journal, the completion of my 

 lectures, an admission after some previous study to the 

 faculty of medicine, now become very necessary by my 



* The reference is probably to his manuscript journal of travels. F. 



