I shared the letter with which you honored me1 with the most recent assembly of the Royal Society of Medicine. The society instructed me to give you its thanks. We are most flattered, sir, by the correspondence that the gentlemen of the Boston college of medicine would like to establish with us—a correspondence that can only benefit the art of medicine and prove useful to humanity and thus for these reasons becomes very precious to us.

With deep respect I am, sir, your very humble and very obedient servant