
          Waterbury, Connt. [ Connecticut] Oct. 11th, 1842.

My dr. [dear] Sir,

I trust that by this time the 3d 
part of the 2d volume of your great work 
upon N. American plants is [assured?] from the press. 
If so I shall be pleased to have sent to the care 
of Mr. C.S. Sperry no. 168 Pearl Street. I have seen 
a notice of the appointment of Dr. Gray to 
a professorship at Cambridge but have not 
noticed whether he has accepted it. I hope 
in a pecuniary point of view it may be 
worth his acceptance as well as in all other 
respects. I suppose your course of medical 
lectures will commence soon, & I trust you will 
be well supported. It is my oppinion [opinion] that 
your school stands higher with the medical 
public than the new school, notwithstanding 
the verry [very] great efforts that were made to 
puff it into notice. I have seen a notice of 
an expedition to the southern ranges of the Rocky 
Mountains. I think had I known of it in time 
I might have been tempted to accompany it 
even without any great pecuniary emolument. 
I am at present & engaged in the practice 
of medicine. At best I cannot expect a large 
income, but I have a degree of health which 
        