
          The course is 18 lectures of from 1 1/2 to two hours - each.


 Some of these same persons insist on another course on
 Botany in the spring. This if it takes place will consist
 of from 15 to 20 lectures of 75 to 90 minutes each.
 In addition to all this I am teaching where I taught
 in 1842. My lectures have cost me incredible labor. My last
 great difficulty disappeared last week by coming to an arrangement
 of organic substances which if not perfectly
 satisfactory I am willing to adhere to.


 The consequences of these labors are
 1st & least My Violin hangs untuned these many weeks.
 2nd My correspondence is given up
 3rd My historical reading abandoned & general reading nearly so.
 4 My Relatives remain unvisited.
 5 My Theological reading abandoned, Hebrew almost suspended
 and five sermons on which I had bestowed great labor all
 left unfinished on the stocks.
 6 My health somewhat endangered by close application.
 Last & worst my spiritual health seriously impaired


 Weighty reasons alone could justify the 6 first & no reason
 the last. My course at Theoplis was a matter of necessity, being
 compelled to teach without sufficient text books. Enthusiasm
 carried it beyond proper bounds. The 12. lectures in the school cost
 me nothing & netted me the enormous sum of $12.! My engagement
 at Mission Inst. was the result of their necessities Prof Apthorp's
 [crossed out: busness] pecuniary affairs calling him East. The Chemistry Lectures
 were the result of solicitation of injudicious friends & the need of
        