New Haven Septr 13, 1843
My dear Sir,
Your communication is received but is too late for the October No. I expect to go for Hanover on monday next & wish you would if practicable let me see you a moment at the hotel where I propose we dine. I will then arrange with you for a little more time on my return in the ensuing week. I shall expect to leave Hanover on Monday Septr 25th & to be in Amherst the next day, Tuesday. I will remain until wednesday or even till Thursdayx if necessary as I wish to see you & your collection, especially of tracks, & if any place is within reach where I can see them in situ I shall be glad to be directed to it or to go with you if your duties will permit.
We will then confer respecting your reclamation & I shall know from you what has induced you to make an appeal, concerning the expediency of whose appearance we (my son & myself) have great doubts.
But I will not enter upon the subject now
xI shall hope to reach Hartford on thursday on my return.
Benjamin Silliman writes to Edward Hitchcock expressing interest in seeing his dinosaur tracks. He also plans to visit James Deane to see his latest discoveries and invites Hitchcock to join him. Silliman assures Hitchcock that all agree that Hitchcock is the "author & founder of the ornithichnology of the earliest bird ever". He is surprised at the state of Hitchcock's feelings (Edward was upset by something Silliman had said in a speech before the Association of American Geologists) and says that if he had known of them earlier, he would have made things right before the association in Boston at once.