
          as he may think proper to afford. I shd [should] have
written decidedly [on?] the subject long ere this, but
that I felt myself delicately restricted in respect
to you. Let me beg you to make all interest
you can, & let me know [added: in detail,] what course I shd [should]
pursue. It is needless for me to say that I feel
much anxiety on the subject; the practice of
my profession, & confinement to the city are being
every day & have more [irksome?]; & had success
attended my application at Albany, I shd [should] have
availed myself of the opportunity of devoting my 
attention to my favorite branch of study, leaving
the city during the summer. Do you think
it would be advisable for me to address a
letter to Col Thayer on the subject? You
will oblige me by letting me hear from you; as soon
as you have communicated my
wish to be considered
a candidate for the ituation; or sooner if that
opportunity of conversing with him be delayed, &
any thing of interest occurs.

Mr Pyne wd [would] be highly gratified, as I am
authorized by my conversations with him to say;
to be a successful candidate for the Chaplaincy
atthe Point; & there are some, whose
intelligence, piety, gentlemanly [deportment?],
& other qualifications would render [their?]
services more honourable to the Institution,
        