
          The Professor and students desire me to deliver a course 
 of lectures this summer on botany. I should not be able
 to make out a course, but must attempt to put together
 parts of Grays Botany, Lindley, & whatever else I can get
 my hands on. The [crossed out: arra] classification I wish to make is that of
 the Flora & I am desirous to know how far, in the unpublished
 part, it will deviate from Lindley. I [crossed out:  do not] suppose I must
 use Lindley where I have not the Flora. In the Cryptogama
 will the Flora correspond nearest with Lindley, Bridel,
 or Burnett? If I could have access to Burnett it would
 save me great labor in collecting facts Could you spare
 it for the whole season, & if the man who brings out the
 flora would bring it, I would be glad to borrow it & would
 send it back by our merchants in the fall.


 I do not by any means consider my situation here permanent.
 When I came I expected to stay 6 months &
 to recieve my board a suit of clothes complete &
 $12 in addition to the 10 left with you together
 with some other matters worth perhaps $5. more
 For board I take my chance in the family of a student
 & it probably costs 50 cts - Good board in Quincy costs $2.
 You may judge from this how we live. Of the $12 & the $5
 I have received as yet $1.75. I now find I must remain
 some 10 months in all. I have proposed to the 3rd Presbytery 
 to support me here. In case they do not - as is
 most probable I shall leave here as soon as I can
        