
          Williams College April. 3rd 1822.

Dear Sir,

Your letter of March 23rd seems to have
been written before you recd. mine, after all my
efforts to get it to you in season. I regret this,
as I wanted to hear from you. I write again by
my brother, Mr. Wright, who will be in town about
a fortnight. He will bring letters & packages from you
to me. I should be glad to have you send by him
as both trouble & expense will be saved for me. Still
you must consult your convenience. He will call on
you for the things, or will tell you where you may find
him, so that there may be no failure on that account.

I have had a part of the Manual a long time.
It is greatly improved. I have not the [work?] yet. I see
nothing bad in it for you so far. Eaton is a sad fellow
to [daub?] but nobody minds it or [cans?] for it.

I have no objection to your paper on the Richmond
mineral. But I object entirely to naming it what
you propose. It ought to be called Hydrangillite, as I 
said to Silliman, tho he published it the very worst
way possible, & one would hardly [suspect?] it. In a
paper for the Lin. Soc. at Boston, I shall call
it so. That Soc. is engaged on Nat. Hist. more than
its name implies. You proposed to call your Siderographite,
Gibbsite, but not this one as I recollect.
However that is of little consequence. [Call?] that
[Mormalite?], Gibbsite, or another of your [new?] [ones?]
at Hoboken. Hydrangillite is the [not?] name 
it will not be applied to [Wavellite?] any more, as

        