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brated lawyer here says that he never hesitates to take 
any case that offers, to be argued six months hence! 
I have taken this in much the same way. But when 
the time draws near I dare say I shall call myself a 
very great fool. But it is now neck or nothing. The 
money will be really very useful to me; to decline 
the offer, coming from one of the most influential of 
the corporation of the college, would have had an 
unfavorable effect on my prospects, which moderate 
success will greatly advance. The pay is $1,000 for 
twelve lectures, or $1,200 if they are repeated in the 
afternoons. Instead of the latter, I have proposed to 
give a collateral, more scientific course of about twenty 
lectures, with a small ticket-fee to render the audi- 
ence more select, and for which I should get about 
$500, making $1,500 in all. The Institute will pay 
for full illustrations. Mr. Lowell offered at once to 
engage me for two or three years; but I told him he 
had best wait to see how I succeeded. Mr. Lowell 
told me that he was in treaty with two of the most 
distinguished orthodox divines in this country for 
courses on Natural Theology and the Evidences of 
Christianity ; the one to commence next year, the other 
the year after. I do not doubt one is President Way- 
land. Who ean the other be? Tell Dr. Torrey he 
hopes to get Faraday next year; and Mr. Owen the 
year a 
I should not wonder if my appointment were in 
some degree owing to a little piece of generosity in a 
small way that I played off not long since. The pres- 
ident has once or twice asked me to hear the Freshmen 
next term in a course of recitations from a text-book 
on general natural history as a matter of favor, as he 
did not wish Mr. Harris or any one else to perform this 
