Ebenezer Emmons to Edward Hitchcock
Albany July 22. 1840
My Dear Sir
Perhaps you will hardly thank me-when I inform you that I have forwarded the last Geol. Report for N.Y. by mail. The truth is the book is quite bulky & the postage is worth more than its contents- I fear- thus I think it a valuable report. My principal object in writing now is to inform you that Mr Vanuxem & myself propose to visit Amherst the first of October next for the purpose of seeing the lowland tracks- As it regards myself however 'tis a matter of no consequence, but I should like very much to visit you- I may not however- but Mr Vanuxem certainly will, if his health is good and will be there about the 4 inst rather than the 6th. He wishes to see the tracks in the rocks, or in plan & will expect to visit some locality----- He will probably go down Ct river & return home in that direction & I propose, if I do not go out to Amherst, to meet him in Hartford & go down to Middletown with him, but I may take the whole route. If anything will prevent your being in Amherst at the time, please write me at Albany.
Yours truly
E. Emmons
Prof. Hitchcock
of A. College ------
Ebenezer Emmons writes to Edward Hitchcock to say that he and the geologist Lardner Vanuxem plan to visit Amherst to see Hitchcock's tracks and would like to visit him as well. This visit convinced Emmons and Vanuxem that the marks were indeed birdlike footprints, as Hitchcock had said.