
          Let me thank you for the good
 word you "put in" for me to Prof.
 Henry. I first learned it the other
 day in calling upon him to ask 
 him to speak to Commiss. [Commissioner] Mason
 to give me some Chemical work
 under the $75,000 grant made to the 
 Pat. [Patent] Office for Agricultural uses.
 He (Dr H) promised willingly but
 it will not amount to much as I have
 since learned that there will be little
 done in that way & what is that
 monopolizing genius of Boston Dr. C. T.
 Jackson will be likely to get it.
 I suppose therefore that I shall
 have to return to N.Y. next month
 & see on which wave of that busy
 shore I can float my back.
 There is nothing here for Chemists.
 The little business which comes to

        