
          Hagerstown Md. Nov. 22nd 1832.


 My Dear Sir


 I have delayed answering
 your very kind communication of Oct. 30th untill [until]
 I could hear from Nashville and could apprise
 you of the result of the application I received
 a letter from Prof. Lindsley last evening - he writes
 like a courtier and informs me in the most polite
 manner imaginable that Dr. Gerard Troost has
 filled the Ph. of Chemistry in that university, for
 several years & still continues to do so - he expresses
 himself perfectly satisfied with the testimonials
 forwarded but regrets that he has no vacant
 spot to offer me. I presume the idea of a vacancy
 might have originated from the circumstance
 that Dr. Troost was recently appointed by
 the Legislature to take a Geological Survey of
 the state of Tenessee [Tennessee] and his acceptance of

        