
          in which the injury you have sustained is irreparable.
 You have lost my business as a glue-boiler! I
 cannot be left at an uncertainty from the inattention
 of the tradespeople whom I employ; & have
 therefore taken measure to render myself independent
 in this important matter. My apparatus
 is constructed, & waits only a trial! Thus do folks
 throw themselves out of bread, by inattention to their
 business & customers!


 Many, very many thanks for your kindly renewed
 invitation. It will be warmer in about a month's
 time, & then I shall hope to spend a day with you.
 At present I have certain pains about the right
 side & shoulder, which I trust milder weather will
 remove. I thank you for the directions, which
 I shall not be likely to forget. Apart from the
 fact that I wd. [would] quite as soon pay 5[symbol?]/ as 11[symbol?]/ fare,
 I think I shd. [should] even prefer the steam boat route,
 but you will bw in town before I start, doubtless,
 & I shall hope to see you-- once again.


 [H? flourish?] Keep up Crosby St. to it's [sic] commencement 
 in Bleecker St. & up the latter until it issues in
 Abingdon Square, a few doors only from my
 house, which is No. 81 Jane Street, the 3rd door west
 of Hudson Street!!


 I should have liked to have seen [Isaac] Sprague's Frémontian
        