
          Wms. College Sept. 15th 1820.

Dear Sir,

I wrote you a line by Mr. [Gildersleeve?]. I
forgot to tell him to inquire for the box at Albany,
owing to the hurrey following [Comt.?] And today's Mail
has brought me no letter from you - so that I fear
you have not yet got the box. I hope indeed it
is not lost - for I can not this year replace the
plants I sent in it for you - to say nothing of the
bugs, which are not worth much or, of the minerals,
which I can send again. But I will not indulge
in fears, while you may be [pounding?] the minerals, or
scolding about the bugs, transfixed by the [spikes?] or the
[spikes?] by them, the [?] of many rendering doubtful
which is the [part/fact?].

I have sent a box of Geol.
specimens to the Grol. Soc. directed to Prof. Silliman.
They go in the Sloop Thames of Troy, Capt. Bailey,
T. & E. Patterson, owners, who have agreed to deliver
the box ino the Store of James Bailey & Co. [Juointies?]
Slip N. Y. The whole expence to this spot has been paid
at Troy to the Capt. or owners, I forget which. The freight
was at their own [price?] [?] your money. Now I wish
you to have this box taken from Bailey's Store & put
on board a N. Haven packet, with a label to
the care of Mr. Abraham Bradley, [?] N. Haven,
& pay the freight from N.Y. to N. Haven, & I will
soon pay you. I ask you, what will make trouble  
but I have now no other friend in N. Y. to whom

        