
          Rec'd. May 5th


 Mt. St. Mary College
 May 1st 1835


 My Dear Sir


 Your very welcome favour of the 20th inst. [instant]
 came to me like tidings from the dead for in truth
 so long time had elapsed since the date of my last
 letter that I had pretty much given up all hopes of
 hearing from you again. You ask about my present
 views - I am still here lecturing as usual on
 Nat. Phil. & Chem. and occasionally in Geology. Botany
 comes in as a work of [???ererogative]. Fortunately I have
 my young gentlemen two years under my charge
 or I could hardly give them much available
 information on there multifarious subjects. My present
 views are to remain where I am until an opening
 occurs that will offer more encouragement than this
 situation. It would be rather foolish of me to leave
 this in hopes of finding a situation elsewhere, to
 change a certainty to an uncertainty. You say
        