
          22
 Fairfield Jany [January] 5 1841


 My dear Sir


 Your letter of Sept last found me at
 Geneva some time in October. I have closed my
 lectures at that place and am now with my family 
 at Fairfield. I did not leave the old school at
 this place without some reluctance. The attachments
 formed by a residence of many years, and the
 sacrifice of property in incident to leaving, would have
 kept me here had there remained any prospect of
 sustaining the school. But many of my colleagues
 had determined to withdraw, and the public had
 imbibed the impression that our location was
 unfavourable, and that our neighbours on either
 side were in preference entitled to legislative and
 professional patronage. Under these circumstances
 it would have been folly to have continued efforts
 that must have ended in defeat and disappointment.


 We have had a class at Geneva of 125 medical
 students, quite as many as we had anticipated.
 The location is a good one, and if the school is managed
 judiciously there can be little doubt of its flourishing.
 It is yet uncertain whether I leave Fairfield with
 my family.


 I delivered a course of lectures at

        