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moderate wishes would require no very large sum, and 
I have no great desire to be rich. 
Tell father Iam 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 Fatuer,—I have been waiting for some 
time to see what my plans for the season would 
expecting as soon as that point was determined is 
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 
