76 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. ° [1838, 
How are the girls? I must write to them specially 
as soon as I can. Does the doctor go regularly to 
market every morning? I hope to get away from 
here early next week. Best remembrances to the 
doctor. Adieu. 
Derrorr, August 16, 1858. 
My last letter left here, I suppose, in yesterday 
morning’s boat, and will reach New York in four days. 
Since its last date nothing whatever has transpired 
here of any interest. Dr. Houghton arrived here yes- 
terday morning, and as it was a rainy day I spent 
near the whole time at his house. He is a very ener- 
getic little fellow, and the account of his adventures in 
exploring the unsettled portions of the State is very 
interesting. He has slept in a house not more than a 
dozen nights since the commencement of his surveys 
this season. Mr. Whipple was somewhat unwell, and 
I saw him but for a few minutes. am now going 
round to his office to read the newspapers, as a mail 
from New York must have arrived this morning. 
Thursday evening. —TI spent the whole morning 
with Mr. Whipple, who is really a downright clever 
fellow in both the English and the Yankee senses of 
the term. We compared notes fully about the uni- 
versity and everything about the matter we could 
think of. I obtained all the information he could 
afford me about what they were doing, and con- 
templated doing. I told him fully what I wished 
to do, and in everything I believe we understood 
each other and agreed wonderfully. This is im- 
portant, because Whipple, although secretary of the 
board, is not a member; yet he is the moving spirit of 
the whole, and throws his whole energy into the work. 
We owe the plan adopted as to the arrangement of 
