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I have already undertaken. The Country Gentleman has 

 published all it has ree'd from me, and I don't know when 

 I can write more. By the way, my article on analysis of soils 

 has been translated for publication here in the Journal of the 

 Bav. Ag. Soc. Mr. Brush and I translated last summer a 

 little book of Prof, von Kobell's on mineralogy. The manu- 

 script has arrived at New Haven and Prof. Silliman has 

 promised to attend to its publication. I must go to Lecture — 

 Dec. 14, 8 A.M. 



Feb. 10, 55 — Yours of Jan. 5th came to hand two weeks 

 ago. I have delayed answering in order to acknowledge the 

 recp 't of the $420 which came to hand yesterday. It amounted 

 to 2193 francs in Paris and brought me 1003 2/3 florins here. 

 The florin accordingly costs me a trifle less than 42 cts. which 

 is very fair. Mr. Le Ray de Chaumont writes "My last 

 despatches bro't me notice that your good father had paid 

 my agent $420 for you, etc." He makes inquiries as to the 

 prospect of settling Bavarian emigrants on his land, etc. He 

 writes a genuine American letter. I continue to be in capital 

 health, as are all the American Legation in the gay Bavarian 

 capital. Weld, Eood, Furness, Furness, Savage, Blight, 

 Impson, Emerson and Johnson are the Americans, and Mus- 

 pratt, a radical Englishman, goes with us. All capital steady 

 fellows, and jolly withal. I have been translating a long 

 article of Baron Liebig's, at his request, for publication in the 

 U. S. It is on agricultural chemistry and on the famous 

 Experiments of Lawes and Gilbert of Rothhamsted. I have 

 sent it to Mr. Tucker, but doubt if he will publish it for various 

 reasons. It is very long (57 MS. pages) and rather uses up 

 Mr. Lawes, with whom Mr. Harris, the new assoc. ed. of the 

 Country Gentleman, lived a couple of years as assistant. I 

 have directed Mr. Tucker to send it to Sec'y Flint at Boston 

 in case it is not wanted for the Country Gentleman, and it 

 will then appear in some other periodical. Mr. William 

 Furness of Philad. is an artist of great promise now studying 

 here. I sat to him for my portrait which he has taken in oil. 



