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[illegible] I am aware that you will lose the profits of my wages
while at college, but can not this be repaid? Or can it not be
arranged in some way so as not to prevent my going if Mr. White
should succeed in getting me in at Yale? ********

Please let me hear from you soon. ********

Your affectionate son,

Seneca Lapham. Increase A. Lapham.

April 3. ******After finishing work on the canal I went over to
Rock Island to get some shells for Mr. White, found specimens of
two genera, anodonta and alasmodonta, which I had not before seen
here.
April 5. Went to the Presbyterian church this morning, after which
I dined with Mr. Mann Butler and spent a few hours with him.
April 6. [illegible] [Dr?] Fitch lent me one number of Transylvannian
Journal of Medicine, containing the first part of Dr. Short's "Flo-
rula Lexingtoniensis". This was particularly acceptable as I have
no work of Botany by me.

As I came down I took a route which I often traveled
last spring, along the edge of the woods, discovered only one plant
in flower besides those already mentioned.

The weather is fine though rather windy. The river which
has been down tolerably low is now rising quite rapidly again.
April 8. Rainy day. ***** Light thunder and lightning once or
twice during the day for the first time this season.
April 9. Another rainy day. This morning I went to the woods south
of this place in search of plants in flower, succeeded in finding
one new one [pencil note left - see notebook 1828 p.9 for omissions?]
April 10. Still raining. [illegible] Work on the canal much interrupted
by high water in the river , which is now as high as it has been
this spring and is rising rapidly.
April 11 Did some work at the bridge, drew a plan of a house for