
          History [in?] Chemistry. I presume he told [Dalaby?] so.
But you know some foreigner would be appointed
of course. Besides Spencer, Pendleton and others would
oppose me. Thayer was apprised of this by Dalaby.
He said, it must be kept a secret, until the
business was over. I make no calculation upon
this at all. But you must keep it in confidence.
The best hope with which I could
flatter myself is, that you might possibly
obtain the place for yourself. This would be
next to getting it myself. Just keep an
eye [crossed out: to] open to that subject and your mouth
shut. As soon as you settle down there, I will give
you Charlotte E. and thus bring under one roof
the two greatest geniuses of the age. Though such
fellows as you generally get fools for wives.

I believe I shall sttrike out a plan for a 
new course of lectures at the Troy Lyceum, as 
soon as I finish at Hudson. I mean Geography
to be taught Geologically. Where can I get
the best account of the geographical geology of
the eastern continent?  {kiswan?] gives a great
many localities of rocks; but it is not sufficiently
extensive for my plan.

I wish you to send your cryptogamous
plants to the Troy Lyceum, to the care of 
Dickinson. It will be more to your advantage

        