News of an overseer's meeting and the need for reform at the School. Mentions Story, Pickering, Lowell and Gray. Encloses note from Wallenstein; obtaining autographs; political events; slavery; mentions Wheaton, Washington, Maine; answers several literary questions, Duplessis.

Comments on Ticknor's work about Lafayette. Recommends that copies be sent to the Consul in Paris.

He will give the letters to Dr. Follen. Will look for a Latin teacher to meet Ticknor's needs.

Sends letters to be forwarded to friends.

Recommends James Lega to him as a teacher; letter of introduction for Lega.

Offers to send Ticknor a book by Count Raizynski on "the modern art of painting in Germany." Apologizes for the delay in distributing the Count's books. He has been busy "as arbiter to decide the claims upon Mexico."

Recommends an English minister and asks if Ticknor can help send him to Pittsburg; mentions school (Harvard?) affairs.