
          I have received an invitation from 
the Faculty of Williams College to deliver
a course of lectures there on Mineralogy and 
Botany. I have agreed to commence on Monday, 
the 10th of next month. I shall stop 
no longer with mineralogy, than to prepare 
the class for Geology. I shall then 
go upon the Bakewell's plan nearly. I have
Bakewell, De Luc, Phillips, Akin & Cleaveland.
In Botany I have, besides my manuscript,
Persoon, Sprengel &c.

Silliman has, to day, given me the 
most flattering certificate, or a mineralogist, 
which you can well imagine. Ives
has done the same in botany. Thus equipt [equipped] 
I am soon to set out. The 
distance 110 miles. When I arrive, I intend 
to correspond more freely with you than 
heretofore, if possible.
        