
          Theodore Frelinghuysen of Newark has been appointed to succeed
him What does this portend? I have been securing
wood from Mr [Pager?] in order to settle the amount of his
debt to you good hickory at the rate of 6 dollars per
cord - What a melancholy affair the logs of the
American Packets is - Have you as yet heard
from Gray - It is time almost that a letter
should arrive -

I do not intend to visit Philadelphia until
you come on to Princeton Perhaps you will find
time to accompany me -

Feby 19th 1839

I have been interrupted every night
for some time past and have not found time to
complete my notes for you until this evening I
lecture to the class every morning and have recitations
in the afternoon and besides this am engaged in attending
to the workmen who are engaged in the Hall Your kind
letter came to hand to day and much to my joy did
not give me a scolding for my [?]. The class
are nearly all provided with books and I gave notice
this afternoon that no one should be without one by the
first of March - I hope you will be able to
make out something from the notes I send you but
I have written them so hastily that I fear it will
be a difficult matter - The college will take
your apparatus and be much obliged by the opportunity
        