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Yellow Bud April 22nd, 1829.

Dear Brother,-

Your promised letter to father is received. I am authorized by him to say that if you succeed in obtaining funds to defer the expenses of a collegiate education, on the conditions you have mentioned, his consent for your going to college will not be wanting. Your letter to Mr. White was excellent.***

I have commenced my botanical excursions for the season. I have added several plants to my catalogue which already consists of upwards of one hundred species.***

Your affectionate brother,

Darius.

I.A. Lapham.

Shippingsport, May 2nd, 1829.

Dear brother,--

Your letter of the 22nd was received last evening.*** Prof. Silliman writes me that he sent me a box of minerals which came as far as New Orleans and then returned in a New York paper a short notice concerning the Welland Canal, stating that it had been pledged to the British Government for the loan of L50,000. A lateral canal from St. Catherines' to the town of Niagara was authorized &c. &c.*** Give me some account of your journey to Sandusky.

Yours affectionately,

Increase A. Lapham.

Mr. D. Lapham.

N.B. Maj. (now Colonel) S.H. Long is now in the employ of the Salt & Ohio R.R. Co. and has published a work of 160 octavo pages called the "Railroad Manuel".

I.A.L.

May 3. Went to Louisville to church, but found there was none; The door was locked. The river has been falling very rapidly