
          get your letter in time to send [added: the] [crossed out: your]
 books, &c., Mrs. Torrey by Mary Murphy;
 but will bring them. Should I leave here 
 Monday Morning, I think I may promise to 
 come on to Princeton. I sent some letters 
 which had arrived by Mary Murphy. 


 My draft from Christmas Livingston &c in 
 favour of Schlechtendal, came back with protest
 for non-acceptance; but that firm here, 
 although they have long ago stopped payment, 
 immediately refund the [crossed out: illegible] whole amount, 
 with cost of protest &c, which I am about to 
 remit again to Schlechtendal, in the form of a bill at 
 sight on Hamburg.  I have a letter from Mr. 
 Sullivant. He says he was for some days on 
 the point of packing up to join us in Virginia.
 A letter from Sept. [September] 26 (with respects to you)
 gives an unfavourable account of his father's health,
 but says he has mended much for the last week 
 or so, and hopes the approaching summer will 
 prove favourable.


 In case I should not think of it when I see you,
 let me see now, that letters, sent within 
 a day or two (4 at the farthest) after we leave 
 for the South, should be [crossed out: sent] directed to
 Jeffersonton, Ashe County, N. [North] Carolina. 
 Afterwards to Warm Springs, Buncombe County, 
 until I directed otherwise. I have to write 
 with a nasty, scratching steel pan, having 
 no quill by me. 


 Yours Cordially


 A. [Asa] Gray

        