
          I went to the Steam-boat office, alias a nasty
grocery shop, and found Dewey's box among boxes of
tea and bags of tobacco. It had lain there a month
or more, and it required much prodding to get
them to look for it. Dewey had sent another package
and written to some person, as I partly learned,
to see about it, for it seemed they had received 
a scolding from some one already. I will see 
that all is on board in the morning.

I have been down this evening and got the keys
to the rooms of the Society of Arts, where I believe
I left a compleat set of geological specimens.
I shall look early in the morning. I shall put
them with your things, and you will give them
to Dr. Mc Neven. You next wait till I get
more.

I have been contriving a preface to 3d. Ed.{Edition] Manual
to lie by me to improve upon. I tell about the
corrections in length, then say a work in the
5 last [?] with enlarged descriptions, &c.[etc.] making
a book about the size of the Manual is much
wanted. Then conclude by saying you have long 
been l solicited to prepare such a work. Next, I
am now authorized to state, that you have
consented to the undertaking &c.[etc.] &c.[etc.]  I shall work
it down about right, and then let Robbins look
it over. When will it probably be ready?

I do not know how you are to get minerals from
Deerfield. If you had an acquaintance in Hartford, I
would think the boatmen might take them there. But
it is an insulated out-of-the-way place. In your
correspondence with Dewey, you should advise him
to send every thing to Robbins and let him send by
a Troy sloop. And you should send [added: to Dewey] by a Troy sloop
to the care of the Doctors Burrett and Robbins. The
steamboat conveyance is becoming the very worst of
all for carelessness, insolence and every thing that is
disgusting and unaccommodating.

        