
          Albany, March 25th 1819

Dear friend,

I received a letter in good hand
writing, without a date or signature, about a week
ago.

Edwin James made a latin and an English index
to your catalogue. But Skinner (who conducts the
printing) was taken sick, and every thing was
thrown into confusion. The proof of the index was
most horrible. But Edwin James and Charlotte
Eaton compared the whole with the names
in the catalogue, and I believe it is now well
corrected.

We take the liberty to laugh at you now,
on reading your letter of last summer, censuring
me for the typographical errors in my then
vol. I corrected about thirty errors, which
you had overlooked, in your preface and last
sheet of the catalogue. I have corrected more than
one hundred errors [added: in the whole catalogue] after you and Beck had 
looked over the last proof.

I know how far Silliman has examined the
Shoharietite. And I know his analysis, hitherto
made, is not to be defended any for want of that
[?] which the case requires. I know he intended to
        