
          Raleigh, May 23d 1840


 Dear Sir, 


 On my way to the mountains of N. Car. [North Carolina]
 early last June, I addressed you a letter from Chapel
 Hill on the subject of the package which you had
 directed to me a year or more previous. As I have not
 since heard from you, I fear that you did not get
 my letter; & I am therefore induced to rehearse my
 lament again. My last letter was nothing but a
 lament, I believe, over the probable loss of the
 books you had been so kind as to procure for me,
 & of which I am not yet able to hear a syllable.


 I think I made a suggestion in my last letter
 that some mistake had been made in the place,
 as Mr. Turner writes that no such package has
 been left at his Office. And I asked the favor
 of your making enquiry about it, to see if the
 package could not be recovered. Allow me to repeat
 the request, if you can find time to attend
 to it, as I am very loath to lose the books, &
 probably shall not be able to procure any more.
 I am sorry to give you any trouble in this matter,
 but I know not what other course to adopt. 
        