
          I have ahundred things to say
but I have not a moment of time.

Write to me at Troy as usual. For
I am moving about at such a rate,
that I direct Mrs. E. to open my letters 
and write me the contents, keeping the
originals ti;; I return, which will be
in five weeks.

Until I had written so far I 
expected to send this letter with the
package. But I have concluded to 
send it with Mr. Parker's bundle
to Swords'. Therefore you next 
call at T. and J. Swords' Bookstore,
for the bundle of Books, [stones?]
and [mosses?].

[?] to write [?] the public opinion
(I mean the scientific public) of my
book. This is my only favorite work.
I shall not alter my opinion of it.
for any one. But I wish to know the
opinion of Gibbs, Pierce &c.[etc.] I feel as
though I stood on solid bottoms; because
I know my [?] to be founded
from really existing rocks. I have taken 
more pains

        