
                                                                                                                                                                                   Wms. Coll. May, 13, 1823

Dear Sir,

I was sadly disappointed in not hearing 
from you by Brother Wright, & especially as I 
hoped to get that box for Emmons, or at least
the microscope. He wants it greatly. I wrote him
lately that I expected it by [N.w. - next week?] but it came 
not. The house is Mr. Davis, one of our tutors.
He is a goood Botanist for the time he has attended to 
it - has a discrimination eye - &  a remarkable
faculty at seeing fungi, especially small ones.
He wants to see you and hear you and see your minerals 
& any thing you can well show him. I hope he 
will get a peep at you, and that you will be
very pleasant, and tell him [?] than you know.

A graduate of ours last year, C. A. Lee, is teaching 
school in N.Y. is somewhat of a mineralogist 
is augmented with Col. [George] Gibbs and Dr. [Elisha] Mitchell & c.,
& I have written him to see you if possible. He 
is a pleasant & very goood fellow, & will be likely
to look up minerals wherever he shall be. He
has already collected many of those about you.

By Mr. Davis I send you a box, containing some 
minerals, considerable gibbsite, [some?] hornstone, &c.
& a packet of plants for [Lewis David von Schweinitz?] and another 
for yourself. I have began to [?] anew &

        