
          Rochester Feb. 2. '43.

My Dear Sir,

I rejoice that your number of
Med. Students is more than last year, &
trust that after all you will get a fair
compensation. It is working hard as you
do, & getting your bread by [?] it;
but you have been partly successful as I
think, & have much reason to bless God
for his good providence. I suppose they
do not fix you in style at Princeton [is/if?],
that they get you without. For a College
course, they pay you pretty well, unless
you go into teaching & helping in the
Faculty, in all ways , as one of them.

I know that Gray must be valued
in Boston & Cambridge, & rejoice at it.
I hope he will give N. England a shake
on Nat. Hist. His text book is fine,
& the Journals may well praise it;
I am only sorry that the Nat. System
is so intractable yet, that no mind
is able to remove it from so much artificial.
As I said to you before, I hope
you & he will get hold of some new thing,
so as to remove the absurdity of the
name adopted. Here is a spot for you
to immortalise your name, & I hope 
        