
          in every lecture &c.[etc.]  at two [added: or three] dollars for
number, [crossed out ?] making one large Octava.

These are undigested remarks; but would
not some bookseller in N.Y. undertake
something of the kind for you on terms to
make you safe? One number, if it stopped
then, would show what you could do, and
everyone send patronage thereafter. No
matter whether you [?] using systems
or not You give them the plants or you
could procure drawings &c.[etc.] in the manners of
Curtis and others.

Hitchcock's Miss White has many
drawings of grasses, our Miss Skin of
Troy has perhaps a hundred most perfect
[added: miscellaneous] drawings of plants. Others would be
found to assist, if you should [communicate?][hole in paper]

After hearing this stuff, now write me
a sheet full. What about Dudyear's collecting
lengths? or you? What about your
coming to Albany at Beck's invitation in 
August? I live in the Old Bank-house
1 1/4 mile north of the Courthouse in
Troy. Have room enough for you, and
business enough to occupy you. I am to
commence the geology of Renssalair[Renssalaer] County
for the Agricultural folks on the 16th of
July. Lewis Beck will go woth me most of the time. I shall keep a covered wagon with
all apparatus. Shall generally go out Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, for about six
weeks. You will take one or two jaunts with us.

Yours
Amos Eaton

[vertical note at left margin]
Mrs WIllow has about 70 girls now in the new Troy Academy. I lecture to them 
in botany [added: every] Wednesday and Saturday at 4 o'clock P.M.
        