
          Washington
Dec. 6th 1856

My Dear Dr

You informed me when in New York
that you find Mr. Kent was about
to give up his business in the chemical
line and I now write to ask that
you will give me some information
as to the terms on which he would
dispose of his goodwill - the amount
of capital required to carry on the
business and any other information
which may be important. I ask
this in behalf of Dr. Easton a young
chemist now in our Laboratory. He
has spent three years in Germany, is
a good chemist and mineralogist
a graduate of Yale College and scientific
school - a gentleman of high moral
        