
          I am less hopeful than I was, on the score of board for you
 in my immediate neighborhood. I have set my landlady to enquire,
 but she hears of nothing, as yet. I also keep an eye on
 2 or 3 newspapers, & have, at present, some half dozen houses on
 my list, but I fear there will be nothing suitable. I have as
 yet seen nothing inviting. I fear, from the comparatively
 meagre list of advertizements [sic], that this is the wrong time of
 year, for any great choice of situation. So many families 
 will be coming to the City, for the Winter. If, when I see you, 
 you should feel inclined to advertize [sic] for exactly what you want,
 I will pay attention to the answers that may come to the applica'n [application]. 


 [Postmark: New York / 29 Sep / 5 cts.]


 [Address block:]
 Prof'r. J. Torrey
 Princeton
 New Jersey


 And now, my dear friend, though I have entirely filled 
 a large sheet of paper, yet I am so little satisfied with
 what I have written, that I am half inclined to destroy it. 
 Nay, resolved to do so, at one moment-- but I believe that I
 should please myself no better were I to go over the same
 ground again. So commending what you may think weak
 to the affectionate & merciful construction which it will not
 fail to meet with, I am, my dear friend, Yrs. [Yours] faithfully JC.
        