
          I may even have more time
 than usual & as part of my
 Library is in Ill, & the books
 a little scattered perhaps, the
 pending election, were I sure
 of succeeding would be a further
 argument for going.


 I wait your decision before
 answering the letter.


 Brackenridge advanced
 a little at Freehold but
 not greatly - as I feared
 Now I mean to have a little
 spell of hard work. My last
 bot. lecture is to-day


 Respects for Mrs T & the
 family particularly H. & [M?]
 whom I must desire to see
 after so long an absence.


 Yours Truly


 I F Holton
        