
          I am to take possession next Monday. Meanwhile 
 I am Mr. Greene's guest here, where I have the 
 house for the most part to myself. I arrived here 
 Friday morning, just in time to miss the President, 
 who had just started for Portland, and has not yet 
 returned. I have seen Bigelow, Emerson &c, and have 
 been looking about among the libraries here, and 
 endeavoring to arrange matters so as to procure 
 just and only such books for the College as are 
 wanting. I am pleased to find a complete copy of 
 Linnaea at the library of the Amer. Acad. of Sci. [American Academy of Sciences] 
 & Arts.


 I passed last Sunday all alone in Greene's 
 house. Mr. Emerson met me coming from Park St. [Street] 
 Church, and on telling him that I was of Orthodox 
 faith, he said he was very glad of it, although 
 not altogether of that way himself.


 I have been only twice at Cambridge, whence 
 I have just returned, and where you may address 
 your letters. But I can do little there until the President 
 returns, by which time however, I trust to have my list 
        