
          promise to do all this. You have now enough of the
[?] to do this, & I will get the rest, I trust,
in due time. [All?] the policy of your [appointers?]
or of their [advisers?], I think, can not have been
the wisest. However, I venture when I know
little, when I have heard some, when the [part?]
has [arrived?] to support what I say. It is long since
I have felt, that you must have the best [Course?],
& that no efforts should be spared to make it so.
but let that go, & let me go after than man
or the plants, here I go.

[Evening?]. I hear nought of the package yet.

The funeral eulogy had been pronounced,
the cannon have ceased, all is still. O that the
hearts of multitudes may be softened, & made
penitant.

I can not meet the geologists at Phila.. I did hope
the meeting would be a little later; but it could not be.
I should ge glad to see the band of brothers, & hear
them hold forth, but I should contribute little. I
wish to contribute some; but, I can not get away
at this time.

March 13. I have found where the plants are. I hope
Prof. Hitchcock will bring them on to
you.

I am obliged to write now &
close, as the man goes, at once.

Your friend C. Dewey

Prof. Torrey

        