
          Rochester Feb. 15. '42

My Dear Sir,

I was glad to hear so much of you & your
affairs in you letter just rcd. By a friend I can send a
letter to your hand.

I hope, you will keep me one of
those gotup books for me. I want to see the thing for
itself.

Your State Collection will be splendid,
& do you honor.

The success of your Med. School is gratifying.
I like to see the regular course of things.
[oppositions]?, generally, promise, & perform not well.

You seem to deal in Solid Carbonic
Acid. Do you make it solid, or does it
evaporate itself solid? It is too dangeerous
for me.

Where is the [intigur?] in the "Bot.
[Frachii"?]? For I have not seen book, or
[intigur?], & know not who either is by. I
suspect, I did not recommend it, & that you
are "caught napping" this time.

I wished to hear soon of that Pogonia, for I
gave it a name, & it is too beautiful to pass
unfigured. I should like to give it early, as I
trust it is new.

The freshet was high, but passed harmlessly
away, not as high by 2 or 3 feet, as last summer.

This winter is strange indeed, the weather has not
been lower than 5°, of Far. The trial of [constitutions?]
is severe, & many fail. I am now
better again.
        