
          Wednesday 6:00 o clock P.M. 


 30 MacDougal [MacDougall] St. [Street]


 My dear Doctor


 Coming down here after dinner, 
 I found your letter Princeton postmark. 14th,
 and returning to the college I was just a moment 
 too late to meet the bearer of your 
 notes for myself and Dr. Knieskern, When 
 momently expecting Dr. K. [Knieskern]'s arrival I came back 
 here. Finding one of the letters in the box 
 (which came to-day, else I should have sent 
 them by Mary Murphy, who was duly packed 
 and consigned to Brunswick this morning, via
 Rail Road) with the mark P.D.K. [Peter D. Knieskern] I concluded 
 it best to take the responsibility of opening 
 it to learn when Dr. K. [Knieskern] was to be 
 expected. It is well I did so for the Dr. [Doctor] writes 
 that he is delayed, among other things, by some illness
 in his family, and will not be here until Monday 
 evening or Tuesday morning of next week,
 which will be too late for me to offer him 
 a bed here, I suppose I had best leave [crossed out: him]
 Your letter to him, and your two notes to me 
 (which contain some instructions for him) with 
 Prof. [Professor] Henderson, at the Medical College? 
 I do not yet find the map you speak of. 


 Some nice specimens of Clematis ochroleuca
 are all ready for you. I had the pleasure to 
 see them a week or two ago. I did not
        