
          [top right in a different hand: March?]
 Monday [Morning?] 1848


 Dear Doctor


 I have been [longing?] to [hear?]
 from you. _ but I suppose you [illegible]
 are busy with the concluding
 part of your course -


 I have detained your copy
 of the manual, which I had
 bound here, for a week, waiting
 for the publisher to have more
 bound copies so that I could
 also send one to friend Holton


 I must not wait longer, &
 therefore sent him a copy
 in sheets. Please ask [?]
 to write a notic for the N. [J?].
 Observer. The copies of the

        