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Miss Harriet Douglass also desires to have her Number sent 

 here for the Future. I hope the Copies for Co^ Perkins & 

 others at Boston & vicinity, as well as for W" Oakes, & John 

 Neale will soon arrive. — 



April 30^^ — Since the above, I have obtained Two more 

 Subscribers — the names of whom are 



1. Rich"^ r. Carman. New York 

 1. L. Reed Do Do. — 



I was told last night that the State has also Subscribed, 

 but cannot tell until I see this day's Paper — Whilst at the 

 Lyceum of Natural History last evening, I was promised their 

 Subscription on Monday next — being the Society's day of 

 business. 



I have concluded to send the 2 Numbers of Drawings by the 

 Packett — The Tin case containing them, will be given to the 

 special care of the Cap" on whom you wUl do well to call im- 

 mediately. — I have giz/en a 1^*^ Volume to Nicholas Berthoud; 

 there are many enquiries made to see the Work and it answers 

 that purpose well. 



John & I leave for Boston either this afternoon or to- 

 morrow — perhaps tomorrow as we have much to do. — It is not 

 probable that Ed'^ Harriss wiU join us at East Port and go to 

 Labrador with us — I shall write to you at every opportunity 

 as these may occur, and doubtless from Halifax. 



M"* Inman has painted my Portrait in Oil, and / say that 

 it is a truer portrait of me than even the Miniature. — Now my 

 Dear Victor exert yourself in the having all the Volumes com- 

 pleated which I have written for — See that they are carefully 

 packed with Paper between each 81'^ &'^ &'^ I shall not close 

 this until I have given the Box to the Cap" and when I hope to 

 add the Subscription of this State. — 



2, o'clock — I have just returned from the bustle of the 

 Lower part of the City — the State has Subscribed! There- 

 fore add that valuable one. There is no Packet for London 

 Tomorrow, therefore the Drawings will go off on the 10^-^ of 

 May by the Cap" in whose particular care they 



