
          or if she has sailed, the Stephania Capt. Burke, addressed
 to you and your [family?].  give them from me to the Lyceum, if it
 yet exists.


 I will thank you to send me by the first vessel for
 Havre after you view this, my bundles of duplicates, & if you
 can add a few of the "rariores" or a few minerals or anything of
 the kind it will be very acceptable. A Mus bursarius [Mus bursaria] or a
 Sciurus tridecemlineatus [now Ictidomys tridecemlineatus] or any monster you can catch would
 not be amiss. Twice I wrote you [?] I have called on
 Michaux & received [?] from him. He seems to be a
 very good fellow & offered to make me reacquainted with some
 of the Professors at Garden of Plants. [Hillhouse?] who has
 been very civil to me. [Maintain this?] with my good wishes to [D---?]
 Direct on the parcels to "Monsieur William  Cooper, Chez
 Mess'rs Holtinguer & Co., Havre" and at the same time
 write to them requesting them to forward the parcels to me
 at Paris to the care of Holtinguer & Co. here, the firm
 being the same at Both places. If however there should be
 no opportunity for Havre direct by the 15th April it will [added with caret: be] as well
 not to send them as they may not arrive till I am about leaving Paris.


 I am beginning to get satiated with lights & spectacles and may take
 it into my head some day to remove to the other end of town & grow
 studious; particularly as the weather is just now so delightful that

        