
          Williams College April 12th - 1823

Dear Sir

Your letter has lain by me waiting for 
an answer some time, & I have been hoping fo find more
leisre than has fallen to my share for many weeks.

But, as Mr. Wright goes to N[ew] York immediately, I must
write now. I was quite surprise to learn that you came
so near the Rocky Mts. & did not see them but I hope
another expedition will succeed better. But to be [?],
no wonder you should wish to go, & yet I hardly though
you would relinquish your business &c for such a tour.
I hope this disappointment is providentially designed
for higher good to you. I hope your [crypts?] are
looked over, so that I may share in the fulfillment of
your intention to write to your correspondents. Emmons
is in high form to know what he has sent you - & I
am desirous of knowing about mine.

By the way, have you not yet got [hold?] of that box I sent
last summer, about the time the [?] began? Or
is it lost in fact? I know not how to [?] it
lost.

I know that you have talents & genius
enough in N[ew] York, & may supply & honorably employed.
But at this day, a journal must be
carried on by literary men who are mostly
out of business, except the literary part of business.
As I hear nothing of the Journal, I presume

        