
          Montreal March 22. 1828.


 My Dear Sir:


 I have waited with much
 impatience to hear from you in answer to my
 letters and still finding myself deprived of your acknowledgement
 I cannot resist the desire I feel
 again to call your attention to your quondam
 guest. I am much afraid I have unwittingly
 committed some mistake or been too troublesome
 at an improper moment or perhaps have asked for
 what I had no right to expect; but whether I have
 transgressed in one or other of these ways, I hereby
 crave pardon and forgivness and that you would
 again condescend to favor me with your countenance.
 One thing I may say and it is this, that
 I seek no more than your correspondence and direction
 in pursuing my studies; that if I have asked
 for specimens frequently to which my returns were
 not commensurate, the fault was your own by teaching 
 me the way of asking and by being so munificent
 at first. I should never have taken amiss
 a refusal to a request as I am pretty well aware such
 refusal would arise only from it not being convenient
 to accede to it. Your kindness formerly makes it a puzzle
 to me why I have not heard from you and leads
 me to suppose that [added: my letters] may have been some way or
 other mislaid or lost. It certainly cannot be much
 of a labor for you to name a specimen who are so
 well acquainted with the appearances of all, so
 that I cannot attribute your silence to want of
 time entirely tho' [though] I have no doubt you are fully
 employed. Still, as I had particularly requested

        