
          Louisville, Ky. January 31st 1852.

My dear Sir,

I had the pleasure last evening to receive your two 
letters of Augt 7th and Jan 19th con'd also the letter of Mr. Wright 
from New Mexico. I am truly sorry to see that he has suffered 
himself to be disquieted in any way by the little fund which you 
were so good as to communicate to him for me; and to relieve his 
mind of all further uneasiness about it I have written him the 
enclosed letter, which I will be greatly obliged to you to forward to 
him by the earliest opportunity, such being more likely to occur 
directly from New York than any other point.

I had heard of your removal from Princeton some time 
ago, and can readily imagine that on many accounts your position  
in the city would afford you many facilities not to be enjoyed 
in the country. I find myself in these western wild so entirely cut 
off from all libraries and congenial associations, that if I was ten 
years younger I would become your neighbour, either in New York 
Philadelphia or Boston; but I am now too old to make such changes, 
and the only and best change I can look forward to [insert: is to] the land of 
“never-withering flowers.”

I shall be greatly obliged to you for a copy of your paper 
preparing for the Smithsonian contributions, when it is printed. 
Should I be permitted to leave home next summer I am 
at present fully inclined (D.v. [Deo volente]) to spend some weeks, perhaps 
        