
          give [?] a reputation. I make this remark
to you, sub rosa, that you may look about you
& in what can & what will be done. I do not make 
this as an an answer to your question for you will have
a work which I shall not [?] in honor by what
I am all to do. I want you should tell me the prospects.
But I am not willing to write, if the names
of contributors are to be made publick by blabbing 
within but the name come with the [?], or [?]
a [?] which hno one helps to [?], [?] no
one knows it. No for the answer to your question.

I am much hurried with business & not able to 
do much - but I am ready to do what I can. If
you will tell me what view you would wish to
have taken - what materials you would furninsh - 
& what must be done, I would then take hold of it,
if I consistantly could. My answer is rather - yes - 
but I am not enough acquainted with the views
you have to say absolutely yes. Should I try
I would not be very long about it.

That gray augite  a [tremolite?] or what 
I am not positive about - it needs examination
if I could see not scapolite, in some variety, I 
could tell but there is not scapolite over that 
way, tho it does not much resemble this, 
it was so late when I got your letter, that I would
not attend much to it - but I told you my doubts.

        