
          Albany. Sept. 5th 1820

Dear friend,

I received you letter, the picture 
&c. by Dr. Beck.

You need not purchase Shaw nor
any thing else for me, until you hear
from me again. For I think I
shall be at New York the last of
next week. I am very anxious to
see you and quarrel with you a
day or two before I set about the
next edition of my Manual. I
wish to be set right or wrong on
several other subjects. I have a son
here [added: 13 years old] who is the commence sitting for
college the last of this month. I shall
send him, to fit, into Vermont in 
a retired village, and I wish him to
take a peep at the ocean and to see
a ship before he is immersed in the
interior of Vermont. So I intend to bring
him along, and stay in the region of N.Y.
about 8 or 10 days. I have a brother
Sylvester Eaton, an enormous fat good-
natured fellow, who is to be ordained
as dominy [dominie] of Norwalk Con. [Connecticut] 40
miles east of N.Y. I may go up to
see the place, perhaps not.

Now do you have your office swept 
out clean and two chairs for me to
        