
          I don't succeed well with the mouth blow-pipe in tube work.
As to "bellows for forge I shall have no regular [added: forge] for this winter
as our medical building is not built. So I should like if
practicable a bellow about 3 ft in total length suspended under
a little table to work with treddle [treadle] for a portable furnace.
This will do for blast furnaced forge &c. Perhaps also
the same thing may be used as table blow-pipe. I have
long thought what is called the treddle [treadle] engine might be made
for the laboratory with adaptations for working bellows turning
a small grind stone grinding glass &c &c. Pray think of it.

My dear Sir,

I write in the utmost haste as I fear it
will be impossible to have these articles sent before we
commence our term. Several of the things in our catalogue
I have already procured or shall find it necessary to procure
for preliminary operations. Those above enumerated I beg
you will send as early as you possibly can consistent
with your avocations. I am aware of the trouble I am giving
you, but there is no one in New York to whom I can [appeal].
In regard to funds I only wish for a meeting of the
faculty, which is fixed a few days hence, to transmit either
to you or some person who will place it in your hand,
$200 or $300. If any parts of the apparatus take time to prepare
pray send at once what can be immediately gotten.
Employ Chilton where you can, we are willing to pay for
his trouble but I believe shall not want credit.

Have the goodness to remember the Paris Catalogue.
I shall feel under deep personal obligation for the minerals
& preparations you are so kind as to offer; they will be of
eminent service, more especially as such things are not
to be purchased, & it is hardly practicable to make them
in the hurry of a lecture season. You mention Farraday [Faraday]
with due praise. I have a well thumbed copy.
        