
          Dear Sir


 I accede with pleasure to the
 proposition you make concerning the
 minerals left at the medical College, and
 I do this the more readily because I think it
 would accord with the wishes of my beloved Husband
 were he still with us. I do not know that
 a better disposition could be made of them. I
 must therefore delegate to my friend Dr. T. [Torrey?]
 the trouble of the removal &c. and wish him
 to present my respectful compliments to the
 officers of the College at Princeton, and assure
 them that I shall feel highly gratified in
 having this remmnant of my husband's collection
 deposited in their very useful, and justly celebrated
 institution; I wish the minerals [word missing from torn document]
 more worthy their acceptance.


 I have a beautiful specimen of
 landscape-stone which I intended for my
 daughter's cabinet, but it is rather too large
        