
          Troy  Nov 1st 1821

Dear friend,

Your letter of Oct. 11th received 
in my absence. By the catalogue I send you,
on the last page, you will see that I spend 5
weeks annually in Vermont. I returned yesterday.
That school flourishes beyond all expectation, but my salary is small; only
290 Dollars last year for my 5 weeks, and
I give more than 100 lectures. Those 76 students
are all full grown young men, and there
is not a scruffy fellow among them. You
certainly did wrong in neglecting to let me
know your final determination as to your [matter?]
[poise?] &c.[etc.]  in regard to your Flora of the Northern
States. Perhaps you think you have told me;
but you had a half year of plans the last
time I heard from you. I have done something
for you however Emmon's authority. I told 
the students that I was almost authorized 
to say, that you would soon commence 
with a series of numbers in some measure
resembling Elliotts plan of a Southern Flora.
I charged them to watch for NEw York papers,
whenever it should announced to send in
their names to the nearest agent. I told them, it
would be indispensable for young gentlemen who intend
to be correct and accurate in the Science, that my

        