
          Mrs Rogers leaves [here?] on Tuesday [after?] the Steamboat for
Boston, & I think it not unlikely that I shall be obliged
to accompany her as far as Providence; in this
case I shall return by the steamboat, & be again, no
accident occuring, in New York on Friday. Shd [should] there be
any thing important in the mean time, for me to do, let
me hear from you; a private opportunity may offer in such
case for sending a letter so as to reach me by, or before,
noon on Tuesday; at all events let me hear from you
on my return.

Have you caused your assistants to make any further
search for the deficient sheet of [Benké's?] catalogue? I hope
it may be found. Have you not yet obtained any intelligence
respg [respecting the missing box? May it not have been put
on board the Sloop without the Capts {Captains] knowing it?

I shall hope to have a line from you on Monday
in reply to my letter wh [which] did not appear to have reached 
you when yrs [yours] was writtien. Mrs R {Rogers] [writes?] with
me in [?] it has T

I am my dear Dr [Doctor]
as ever yrs [yours] truly

JSR
        