Mr.P.A.

Jay is a member of the club, so I see him every Friday evening.

Chancellor Kent also is a member, and both warm friends of yours....
"My time for ten or twelve days past has been occupied in answering a pamphlet of Colonel Trumbull, who came out for the purpose of justifying his opposition to measures which had been devised for uniting the two Academies.

I send you the first copy hot from the press.

There is a great deal to dishearten in the state of feeling, or rather state of no feeling, on the arts in this city.