
          would most likely be dissolved. These, however, being not
 yet arrived, I think it high time to inform you of the
 matter, & to request you to take the necessary measures
 at the U.S. Assay office that in future the Prima & Secunda
 bill--if [added: they] are not yet forwarded to me--or any other
 bill or paper destined for me should bear my name &
 adress correctly & distinctly written C.F. Meissner
 (not C.T. or C.J. Meissner).


 Perhaps I had better to send you back the Tertia bill,
 to show it & get it altered at the Assay Office, but this
 would cause considerable delay, and my legal adviser
 does not think it necessary.


 I need scarcely add that no bill for the remainder
 of the payment, which according to your last letter
 Mr Crooke was willing to send "in very few weeks" after
 the first part, has till now come to hands.


 Naturally I write in great hurry this time
 & can only add how very sorry I am for the trouble
 this unpleasant affair will cost you, and
 my hearty congratulation for the new site and building
 you expect to obtain for Columbia College,
 and for the beautiful present Mr Crooke has made
 you with Wright's Cuba Plants, as well as for

        