
          Thursday, June 26th.


 My Dear Friend 


 Your favor ending with the 
 23d reached me yesterday afternoon. Well 
 since you cannot leave home until Monday 
 we must wait with all patience till then. 
 I shall be nearly through with college duties by 
 the time you get here, which will give us 
 more time to be together. 


 On reflection I think Mrs. Torrey may
 be quite right about coming in the night-
 time, to be shut up in the cars the greater
 part of the day, and unable to lie down, will 
 be more doleful and tiresome than the other 
 way, when Mrs. T. [Torrey] can lie down and rest 
 with comfort from 5 o'clock till two.
 It will save the bother of spending the night 
 in New York also. 


 If you will leave Princeton in 
 the morning Cars on Monday, you can send 
 your luggage directly to the Norwich boat, 
 have several hours of day-time in New York, 
 and reach Boston the next morning. This 
 is, I see on the whole so much the best 
 way that I shall expect you thus; and 
 therefore have the Carriage at the Worcester depot 
 for you on Tuesday morning
        