
          him hospitably on your recommendation,
and furnished what aid I could
in promoting your ends, but do not
let the circumstance distress you for 
a moment. If L. [Lundgren] has proved himself
an unworthy [crossed out: office] object of kind
office, they are most deservedly and
willingly rendered to Dr. Short and to
yourself, and if you recommend any
one else, I will endeavor to do the same 
for him, unless circumstances render
it very inconvenient or impossible for 
me to do so. I cannot however derive
L's [Lundgren's] reasons for acting as he has done,
nor the object he has gained in so
doing. Does Dr. Short lose much by
him? I have never written to Dr. S [Short],
        