
          Recd [Received] March 7th 1844 


 Cambridge Friday evening, March 1.


 My Dear Doctor


 I have just been buying a new 
 ream of flat cap. much better than the usual
 (indeed it cost more); and I honor a half sheet 
 of it on this occasion. 


 The tin box, with your letter of Feby [February] 28th 
 came to hand yesterday noon, What a heap of 
 sugar plums! And in time too, for by a curious
 coincidence, in my last, I had asked Jane to send 
 me some peppermints, which are good for lecturing 
 on. As these came unsolicited, my thanks all 
 the more due to Miss Jane, to whom I cordially 
 offer them. I would write, did time allow.


 Well you have heard what I had to say 
 about my introductory. I was satisfied. I said 
 plainly what I intended to say and delivered it 
 not very well indeed, but well enough to satisfy 
 me that I could do well with practice. 


 This evening I have made a second trial, 
 and a more trying one by far. I have a cold, and 
 am a little hoarse, which was a good thing, for as
 to voice I filled the house. 


 As I was full of illustrations, quite as much as 
 would cover the whole side of a barn, I determined to 

        