
          This is all as I feared; and as I spoke plainly to 
 Buckley at the time, I have nothing more to say. 


 He had best give his instructions directly to 
 Pamphlin himself (Wm [William] Pamphlin, no. 45 Frith St. 
 Soho, London) I think that, as the new species 
 it contains happen to be more noticed, in Sill. jour. [Silliman journal] there 
 will more purchases offer. I have been careful not 
 to send a single specimen of my last collection abroad,
 so that these cannot anticipate any of his subscribers. 


 Poor and insufficient specimens cannot be sold in England, 
 where the market seems to be [drugged?] with good ones. 


 Fielding's long expected box came in the last Steamer
 but has not yet reached me.


 I think I should be an unhappy, discontented, unthankful 
 person not to be gratified with the success of my 
 lectures. But it is not likely to turn my head. Every thing 
 proceeds quietly & soberly. I purposely directed no tickets to be sent 
 to a paper that often reports lectures, as I did not wish it 
 done. There has not been a line in the papers about the 
 matter, except the very considerate notice about the beginning
 which I sent you. My last week's lectures are called
 much the best. The first on the anatomy & physiology of 
 leaves and perspiration [added: exhalation] & its consequences, occupied an hour 
 & 20 minutes. My last, on food of plants, veg. [vegetable] digestion, and 
 the relation of plants to mineral & animal kingdoms, in which 
 I did my very best, & which required (& secured) the most 
 intense attention on the part of the audience for 100 minutes, 
 was received with an intelligent enthusiasm which did the audience 
 credit. For it would be mere affectation for me to pretend not to 
 know, as I well do, that it is one of the best scientific lectures 
 that have ever been delivered in Boston. I have none left 
 to compare with it. I have only 4 more to give, during which 
 I dare say the interest will fall off, which will not disappoint or
 mortify me. From your truly kind remarks and warnings 
 I suppose you look upon my success in this undertaking as 
 extremely hazardous to my best interests. Now this duty 
 came to me unsolicited and unexpected. I accepted it because 
 I thought it was my duty to do so. Then I was of course 
 bound to make every consistent effort to ensure success. 
 While viewing it at a distance, I felt much anxiety. But 
 before I commenced this entirely disappeared, and I have gone 
 on just as coolly as you might do with your Chemical 
 course. I am thankful that (owing chiefly to the nature & 
 novelty of the subject) I have done my work creditably. 
 The little eclat which attends it, I am not so foolish as to 
 care anything for, pro or con. It is entirely ephemeral. 
 It may gratify my friends: but it does me no good, & I trust no harm. 

        