
          
 Boston Monday 25th July 1842


 My Dear Doctor.


 Having time before the mail closes 
 to write a hurried letter, I hasten to let you know that 
 I have this morning secured lodgings at Cambridge
 at a retired house, off the main road, about half
 way between the Colleges & the Garden. I have two rooms, 
 one pretty large, one moderate (of which I shall make 
 a bedroom &c, a small nearly dark bed-room 
 which I shall shelve and use for herbarium, and 
 three closets, furnished decently (but not extravagantly
 !!) in a house where there can at most be only 
 one other lodger, and he must ascend by a different 
 staircase from mine, for $3.00 pr. [per] week, 
 the rooms and bed linen &c to be kept in order.


 I am to board at an adjacent house, to which 
 I have access by a private gate thro. [through] the garden. 
 The latter house belongs to Mrs. Peck (the widow of my 
 predecessor), who boards there, and who I see has 
 bestirred herself to contrive and effect this arrangement. 

        