
          Cambridge, [crossed out: Monday] Tuesday


 My Dear Friend,


 I suspect there are several things in your
 late letters that I ought to reply to, but my many little
 cares both of the Garden & house building, putting in furnace,
 & ranges, looking after plumber, etc., as well as driving on the
 Manual through the Grasses (an exceedingly troublesome
 family to me) must be held to excuse any apparent 
 neglect on my part, for the present. I wish you
 had retained my bot. [botanical] illustrations, as I scarcely much need
 those you had, and they might have been usefulful to you,
 though I do not think much of them. For small things
 I rely on the black-board, for others, on the Lowell set.


 If you can keep back your lectures, I will send them
 all to you in late November.


 I write this line especially on business, to say that I
 need some assistance to keep me solvent until Dec. 1st,
 and I thought you might like, now on 1st November, which is
 near, to send me interest which has accumulated on two notes
 I hold, viz.
 One of April 28th, 1845 for $200, which at 6 pr cent to Nov. = $27.00
     "         April 7th, 1846  for $500,        "    ...                                       47.50
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                                                                                                                     $74.50


 Either a check on a New York bank, or a draft on
 Boston, which the Wall St. brokers, in that way should sell for 25 cents,
 woukd form a convenient remittance. But if likely to be at
 all inconvenient to you I will look elsewhere for the little
 temporary aid I require. Yours cordially
 A. Gray

        