
          College fuller than ever since Bates left! I did not
 succeed in [mining?] it last year.


 [Arvd?]


 Middlebury Vt 21 Sept 1857


 Dear Dr Torrey


 I am back in my old
 quarters & trying to see if the smoke
 has cleared away after the explosion of
 12 ult. I have a yet got very little
 light indeed, only that a successor was
 appointed (all the work of a part only of
 that day!) who unhesitatingly declined.
 Were the Corporation deceived? It is a
 little curious that Miss Gordon, not
 knowing what you said remarked to
 me a little while ago "You ought never
 to have boarded at the Presidents. Prof
 Bittinger an excellent professor
 was sent away for no other reason than
 that he was disagreeable to Mrs L. with
 whom he boarded." but from her further
 account, his offense was rank
 compared with mine; for he publicly
        