47 Powell(?) Street

New York Aug. 29.

Dear Spooner.

Your note was received by me yesterday upon my return to town.

I _____ your letter personally to Mr Butler immediately upon receipt of it & Mr _____ to examine it & return it to you with his comments, & I ____ ____ he had done to before this.

He is now absent from town in Vermont & yesterday ____ to deliver an oration at the laying a corner stone of a monument to his friend Silas ______ in his return ____. I will see _____ as soon as his return, & from ____ to you as ______.

Your Friend _____

Josias Howe