your name, and although the Journal resources are not here ample, I would pay for the contribution ^should that be agreeable to you. I regret extremely having been unwittingly the cause of suffering to you, for there is no man towards whom I have kinder feelings, & few who command an equal share of my esteem, but I really think you should not let the affair trouble you any further, for I am sure your reputation is as safe as it is deservedly high. I have not been without my share of undeserved infliction. I was represented to M^r Lyell as having instigated those attacks upon ^him in the papers. A common friend without my knowledge either of the imputation or of his volunteer action upon it, took great pains with M^r Lyell to counteract the slander. I wrote an indignant denial addressed to M^r Lyell but suppressed it at the earnest request of one of our Boston friends, and M^r L. & I are again interchanging letters & there has between us been no allusion to the affair. It is not worthwhile to say more now; when we meet I may explain myself. Please to recollect that at the next meeting of the association you will lodge at my house D.V.

My son joins me in my kind embrace to you, M^rs H. & your children.

I hope M^rs H. has not made a black mark against me & that if she has, she will blot it out. I remain, my dear sir, as ever very

cordially your friend,

B Silliman

Prof Edw. Hitchcock

 I have not yet read Owen’s late Memoir but am studying Mantell’s Medals of the Creation.