
          Newburgh, Aug. 4th 1822

Dear John,

It is Sunday and I can get 
no paper but this. It is thick stout paper,
very well suited to a scolding subject. I am full
of wrath, on accounting your rascally treatment
of Emmons. You, in effect, advertize him Silliman's Journal, as an ignorant blockhead,
who picks up minerals (your humble servant)
ignorant of what he finds, and sends then to
you (all wise and all knowing) in provi[?]
any unassorted masses. None, I assure you,
Emmons is, in all respects, your superior
as a mineralogist; excepting that he has not
given much attention to the chemical analysis
of minerals. He is familiar with every
mineral in New England, and is considered
as a very accurate observer. He first
showed the Richmond mineral to me.
He told me, at the same time, that it appeared 
to be new. He gave conclusive and
scientific reasons for his opinion. I advised
him to send [added: it] to you and [crossed out: to] Dewey.
Dewey treated him fairly, and acknowledged
him the discoverer not amere fool, who
not knowing whether they were quartz or 
diamonds, as you did. Emmons is the real
and only discoverer, according to all rules on
that subject. He discovered it to be unlike
any known mineral. His scientific eye
alone brought it into [?].

The truth is, if a countryman has the eye
of a Linneas and the science of a [Vanguehin?],
every Cockney of a city, where salt

        