
          Do you know any of the Faculty 
 personally & have you any objection
 to either give me a letter recommendatory 
 or write to your friends
 (if any) on my behalf. Dr. A. 
 Clarke (new here) has promised
 me to write over at once & Dr Childs
 (here also) of the Pittsfield Med. School has
 similarly interested himself. I 
 think you must have overestimated
 the value of the Chair - as there
 were only 60 pupils or thereabouts
 at the last session. In asking your
 interest & assistance I hope you will
 not deem me importunate; having 
 heretofore so valuably aided me in 
 this Country I naturally apply to you
 again: you know the proverb "give


  
        