
          Freehold Institute 
May 2nd 1850

Dr [Dear] and respected Sir

My copy of 
Gray is so marked already 
that I tho't [thought] it best to send 
you a new copy and have 
done so directing it to be 
left at the post office. The 
driver is a drunken fellow 
tho' and may leave it at 
the stage house. I saw 
your daughter at Washington 
a few weeks since, I would have 
spoken to her but I tho't [thought] she 
might not recollect me and 
I did not care to be obliged to 
make myself known to a lady by
any explanation whatever. She was 
in company with Mrs. Henry at 
the State house. I have a small 
specimen of that amber that 
I can spare you. Would you 
        