
          Troy. May 31st 1819

Dear friend,

Last evening I returned from my tour to 
Blenheim(between 40 and 50 miles back of Catskill) with
Chancellor Lansing. I found nothing but coarse rocks,
yet I never made a more satisfactory excursion. Some
of my most troublesome doubts were satisfactorily settled.
I was employed bu the Chancellor ten days at $5 
and expenses of day to settle the Geology of his township 
Blenheim.

I have engaged to lecture on Botany 2/5 of the 
season till October, at Catskill and Hudson. I begin the
8th of June. I lecture here also and perhaps at Waterford.
When I returned Mrs Eatona Charlotte E. had
received and read two letters from you. This is a liberty
they always take; and also to push me severely for any
supposed negligence on my part.

Our calendar is intended merely for the function of aiding
students in collecting plants, by giving them localities and
teaching them what plants to search for during all parts
of the season. We shall probably give a more naked list
of names and localities, with the running date  the left
hand. If you or any other botanist will give us a few important
reflections upon particular plants, we will give
them in [added: marginal] notes. It will be printed in 12mo.[month] form for the pocket
in a packet form, you may throw what you into any 
bookstore, to be sold on commission. But I will not so
exchange them as to subject them to be [disgrave?] at
book-auctions. You may give away as many of them
as you can to your, or my advantage. My 2d Edition
may be somewhat interesting to you. I shall be very
headstrong in that; because I have no confidence in any
geologist in the United States. If you would give me a written
        