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Since my return from geological work I have been
endeavouring to comply with your request in relation to Chem.s &
Blowpipe reagents & apparatus. Bullock & Crenshaw of this City
are now putting up a little order which I left with them, including
as I think most or all of the articles you will need. Such
reagents as are required only with in the state in which the
common Apothecaries furnish them I have omitted, knowing that they
can at any time be had in Charlottesville. You will see among the
articles an excellent form of Chem.l Table Lamp.
The whole amt of this order will be something less than
$40. B & C will send the package forthwith to their correspondent
in Richmond by whom it will be promptly forwarded to you. I think
you will find them obliging & prepared to supply whatever chemicals
or apparatus you may need.
Mrs. Rogers is now in Boston whither I will soon follow
her, to spend the early half of the Winter among our New England
friends. After that we will move South & will probably remain
sometime in Eastern Virginia.
I have been recently following up my examination of the
Mesezoic rocks of Va in Fauquier etc.-by way of comparison with
N. C. & Pa, & have got some curious results. In my wanderings I
reached Richmond just as the fair was at its height, took a
hurried glance at what seemed to be a very creditable display &
hastened away from the overwhelming crowd.
I learned with great pleasure that the classes at the
Univ: have continued to increase & that the aggregate this year
will much exceed that of any former session.
By this time I trust the new harness fits comfortably on
you. That you keep the traces well stretched I do not doubt. May
all success attend you.
Give kindest remembrances to Mary & to all in the populous
home across the way.
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