
          have scarce an alternative. The salary
 being but $800 the Rogerses &
 Gibbses let the mattter alone. As it
 is only by the consent of those worthy folk
 that I can have a professorship at all
 I suppose I ought to be thankful. Now
 if I go there I mean to stick there and
 I shall be thankful that it is not Princeton
 I am [?] whether to send this
 to day as I am not in a vein for correspondence
 but it is so long since
 any of you have heard from me. I
 am really stiff with hard labor.
 Tell your father that tho' I think he
 owes me a letter - that shall not deter
 me from writing again next week as
 soon as I have any thing to write.


 But I suspect now I am mistaken
 & I owe him well I never stop for
 that when I have any thing to write
 & time to write in. I wonder if
 Maggie is at home & how she is
 If you are not hurried do write me
 soon & tell me how you are all
        