
          a plan of the table which it is hoped will
meet your approbation It consists of three
parts one of which is formed by your trough
thus [plan view drawing of a three-part table, with a rectangle at left marked "table", a rectangle at right marked "trough" and a bowed center marked "table"] The seats are [?]
and similar to those upstairs
but much better made and somewhat more
neatly arranged. The arrangement of the inner
room is the same as that which you saw
on you last visit to princeton but as the
[plan drawing of a room labeled "chemical lab" with windows to left and right of a center "case" and a door at lower center flanked with a "case" and "small room" on each side] 
partitions are formed by movable
cases you can alter the whole
to suit your own convenience
You may recollect that
a larger case is placed
directly before the door
to serve as a screen to the laboratory
We have also placed a case on each 
side of the door and thus formed two [added: small] rooms
sufficiently large to contain a cot and
washing apparatus. I wish you could
arrange matters so as to come out a
few days before you begin the course
since considerable work will be required
to be done before the lectures can
go on. We are all at present tolerably
        