
          Dear Doctor
 I was glad to hear from you on your return from
 Williamstown. I had nothing of sufficient interest to say
 or I should certainly have written you there-
 about the time you went I received the no of the Annals of
 the Lyceum and was taken by surprise to find so much
 valuable information on the composition of minerals by Thornton
 I am surprise at the industry of this chemist- I looked at the 
 results with peculiar interest because they throw much
 light on the atomic proportions of which we have much
 to learn as yet.
 I purpose sending with this letter a prospectus and new regulations
 of our academy you will see from it that a great change 
 has taken place here but P has left here a few
 days ago. I do not exactly know where he is gone suppose
 to NY 2 of the former instructors Dunbar & Ransom
 are going to try to establish a school at Amboy to be called
 the Orange Institution.
 I have every reason to believe that the change that has taken place 
 will finally lead to place this institution on a better footing
 it must stand on its own merits. I wonder what the 
 prospects are as to the success of the Harlem establishment going into
 operation. Capt [Captain] P purposes travelling during the winter 
 in the Southern states since he has not succeeded while at the 
 head of a school he seems determined to make his views 
 known and for this purpose he intends lecturing in some of
 the principal cities. He will leave nothing untried to advance
 his favorite plans-  relative to Education
 You will say he is a most persevering man so he is in
 his way.
        