
          plates, even, let alone his text. Wait for them 
 to move and this thing must turn out right, 
 I think, in the long run. The part that Rich 
 can have pretended to prepare is small, compared to 
 the whole materials. If they publish a volume 
 of his matter, I will take care to show it up (if 
 no better than I suppose it) in such a way that 
 they will probably see the true position of the thing, 
 and must, sooner or later, put the work into proper 
 hands. It will be best to show no anxiety about 
 it, till Wilkes finds himself brought up short, which 
 they must be whenever they go to press. 


 Dr. Gould fortunately came in just as I 
 received your letter on Saturday. I knew Ag. [Agassiz]
 could have said no such thing apropos to your 
 invitation, for from the first, he expressed the greatest 
 willingness to lecture as proposed, if it would be useful 
 to science, and to such an audience as you proposed, 
 while, at the same time, he said he [crossed out: disliked]
 would have nothing to do, with public show lectures 
 to a metropolitan audience, who would you look upon 
 him much as they would upon a play-actor, singer, 
 or lecturer on Mesmerism. What Gould
 said to Feuchtwanger, he tells me, referred to his
 lecturing in this way to a general public audiences [audience].
 Gould too, was not informed as to the real character
        