
          203 Prince St
 August 28th


 My Dear Doctor


 Your note of the 2nd followed
 me after some little delay to Pittsfield
 where I had been since the 3rd of this month.
 I came to town [inserted: on 26th] on some business & have again
 this morning & shall remain at Pittsfield
 until Septr [September] 25.


 There has been some mistake in the delivery
 of the Vanilla crystals, they never came to hand.
 I have made enquiries & no parcel of any kind was
 delivered here along with the letter; if I had
 them I should have gladly set to work at them
 as in Pittsfield "est mihi tempore agendi".
 Looking into the Chemical Gazette Vol. 8 I find Gobley
 has found it (Coumarin) in the leaves of "Angraecum 
 fragrans" - an orchid - as also in the "Asperula 
 odorata" by Schwartz. (Vol. 10) in the Infolicum
 Melilotus, the Anthoxanthum Odoratum & a
 few other plants. Your messenger must have
 by accident neglected to deliver them.


 Our school in Pittsfield is wretchedly
 small as regards numbers this autumn. We do 
 not well know how to account for it except that your
 city schools absorb all the pupils. I have

        