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Your remarks upon infinities etc. I take it are the production of your 'would be' or should be celebrated 'Machine for Original Ideas." I judge the machine may be a valuable one, but it strikes me, that like Sam Slick's machine for 'Original Poetry', it needs finishing. The manufactured article seems to lack polish. However the sample you gave was perhaps hardly sufficient to form an opinion upon.

  We had a few days of very warm weather about three weeks since which it has been very remarkably cold. Most kept fires some. It has also been very dry indeed. I think crops must have suffered much, by the united cold & drought. Wed. & Thurs. however we had a splendid rain. I expect it will be warmer after it. The hay in the College grounds was cut last week. The object of cutting so early is to have it spring again before Commencement, & then cut it again in fall.
 This term is called the hardest in the four years' course. Fall of Sophomore year. We study Analytic Geometry, or Application of Algebra to Geometry, by Prof. Smith, called the hardest of all Mathematics. I dont think it is so very, yet at least, however.
 In French we are reading Molière, Plays. & writing French. In Greek, Electra, of Sophocles, an old Greek Tragedy, and esteemed very hard, though as all use pong's as they are called, translations, it is not so killing hard. By the way I think the use of translations, that is proper use, is beneficial. A.B.& C. notwithstanding.

What are your circumstances in a pecuniary point of view, How would it probably comport with your convenience to send me V or X some 6 or 8 weeks hence, if I should happen to need it & send you a request therefore? before Commencement. I may need it.

  Please write soon & particularly, tell Eliab to write, & Lucy. I am waiting to receive a letter from her before writing. Write immediate. I will try to write a better letter both for Matter & penmanship again
                                                  Your Aff Brother.  Isaac