
          students have entered but a number
of the old ones have not returned on account
of the great commercial depression which
is now beginning to be felt more severely in
the country than before. Princeton has
never before known such times in the way
of bankruptcy - Mr J. S. Han has been sold
out and now leaves Princeton some 6 or
8 thousand dollars worse than nothing and
I could mention half a dozen who are on
the point of unstable equilibrium and who cannot
long support their present condition -

I have heard nothing about the
amount of repairs which are to be put on
Mr Byards house. Professor Dod will
be disposed to accomodate you as far 
as he can but I suppose he will not
find himself at liberty to do much.

Mr Field expressed himself much
gratified with the prospect of having you
for a neighbor. I see by the papers

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heat Light Electricity and galvanism These [?] abound in mistakes
and errors of [?] which could [?] be connected without remodeling
the whole They thought this were too much and so the matter ended 
        