
          Cambridge, Thursday Morning 


 My Dear Friend 


 Yours of the 12th, with the enclosure, 
 reached me last evening, and I hasten to 
 reply by first mail. 


 My idea of Wilkes is quite confirmed by 
 this letter of his. He is a very dirty 
 fellow, and it is plain, in my opinion, 
 that you will be much annoyed here after 
 if anything is left at loose ends in your 
 arrangement. It is not for me to 
 advise in the matter, but I should for 
 myself first require that the closing 
 remark in his letter should be apologized
 for and withdrawn. 


 Then it seems to me that this matter 
 of "consultation", about which he writes in 
 such a vague wordy way, may in the 
 result give you much annoyance. In 
 fact I would not promise to do what 
 Wilkes can neither explain nor define. 
 I think, after the specimen of Wilkes 
 gentlemanly ways, it would be best to cut 
 all that short, somewhat in this matter. 
        