
          by the way, have you
the vol. of Emory's Report
on the Botany, which you wrote?
How is it to be obtained?

I wish to know if you
gave a vote to lay the proposed
change of Constn [constitution?] at Springfield,
on the table. I suppose you
did. I hope you did.

Prof. Pierce told me in ten minutes
after I left you in that Hall, that
he & those managing now the
Assocn had no object ot intent
in the adoption of the proposed
change, & that it did not originate
with them, but with [crossed out: an] other
several members; & that ^[added:he] cared
not a cent for its [rejection?].
All this I can believe, tho' I
know not for what it was
originated.

Many gentlemen,
lawers, clergymen, agriculturists,
have expressed to me
their gratification at that
result, & the hope, it will
        