
          He desires me to say that he expects to spend
the first half of December in New York
at Dr. Hosack's & will be most glad to see
you.

I am sure you will like him.
We are perfectly charmed with him. A
quiet, unaffected, pleasant man, extremely loveable.
He works away at a table in my study.
His course is a very interesting one. He is a
beautiful writer, but not very fluent extempore,
though with more practice he would be a fine
lecturer. He has a good audience.

The Paris things I must despatch very
soon, the London the first chance.

Sprague has promised now to take up & finish
your 4to [quarto] drawings.  He says he can work
but a little while at a time, from a difficulty
of breathing. Had I foreseen his
health & vigor giving way, I should not
have undertaken the trees , which, as to
illustration, as he is more fond of them than
anything else, & has made fine drawings,
we have gradually enlarged our ideas about
them much beyond the initial plan, as to the figures.
        