
          Princeton July 4th 1837

My Dear Sir

I [received?] [Chitions?] bill with your
letter and have conferred with Professor
Maclean on the subject he has promised
to have the appropriation made at the
next meeting of the Board of Trustees which
takes place at the end of the session the
[10th?] of April.

I have just finished my arduous
course of instruction and am now arranging
my affairs preparatory to my starting
for Europe - I intend if possible to sail
in the packet of the 20th for London if
however the passage to Liverpool is safer
and quicker I would wait for the packet
of the 24th.

I wish to get to London as
soon as practicable in order to be there in
time at least for the close of the scientific
lectures of the season

You are no
doubt very much engaged in your lectures
but you will I hope find time to
take my passage as you proposed

I am to have a companion de voyager
Mr Linn De Witt of Albany a young gentleman
        