
          And [Answered] March 25th


 Utica March 22nd 1834


 Dear Sir


 I thankfully acknowledge the receipt of 
 your letter of the 1st inst. [instant] and am delighted to learn 
 that you contemplate giving a course of botanical lectures 
 before you leave the city. I hope the plan will 
 succeed & that you will have a large and very fashionable
 class. My journey was as tedious as rain and bad roads 
 could make it. The first night. being alone in the coach, 
 I was upset by the carelessness of a [crossed out: illegible] drunken driver. 
 The top of the coach. striking against a stone wall, was broken 
 in. but I escaped. narrowly indeed, without any injury, excepting 
 a few rents in my clothes. At the end of the route. I had 
 the satisfaction of seeing the driver dismissed from his 
 employment. On my arrival at Bridgewater I found 
 a child of my friend & former medical preceptor,1 a favourite
 little daughter, dangerously, almost hopelessly sick with 
 inflammation of the brain. I was consequently detained several 
 days, & before I left. had the satisfaction of seeing the little 
 patient convalescent. I am now in fine working order 
 and buisily [busily] engaged in my chemical course.
 Dr. Hadley called upon me yesterday and I gave him 
 the little " notions " you sent by me. He was much pleased, 
 but was especially delighted with the condensed sulphurous 
 & anhydrous sulphuric acids.


 The principal object of this letter is to consult you. in regard 
 to some propositions made my [me] by Prof. [Professor] Hadley. 
 Besides his situation in the Med. [Medical] College, you are aware 
 that he holds the professorship of Chemistry & Natural Science 
 in Hamilton College. He has just concluded his 
 chemical course in that institution, but in early part of 
 summer he lectures to the senior class upon Botany &
 Mineralogy. As they are about to make some alterations 
 in the college buildings at Fairfield, his presence will be 
 required there & he wishes me to take his place. for the 
 ensuing term at Hamilton College  I ought also 
 to state. that Dr. H.[Hadley] accepted that situation. with the [crossed out: in]
        