
          Monday morning


 Dear Doctor


 I despatch this, as it is, for the purpose of
 asking you to make enquiries now in New York
 (where, from your letter, I suppose you are, or will be
 every day or two) whether it is still time to use
 any influence you may have in behalf of
 an old correspondent of yours, Mr. Brace, who
 greatly needs, and is admirably well qualified for
 the place he has become a candidate for
 in the New York Free Academy.


 Rhetoric, composition, etc., is the place his friends
 have applied for. On enquiry of Mr. Kelly
 you will learn how the case stands; and
 perhaps, a word from you wouild be of real service,
 and it will much help.


 Your attached friends


 Jane and A.G.


 Your [Paeusedana?], which came safely, are so broken
 & fragile that I mean to cut some of my paper
 to your size, & very carefully glue them down to
 save them from farther injury.

        