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with the museum &c intact.
This agreement {which was written} I confidently hoped and believed would be faithfully carried out, but am sorry to say that four months have passed, the building, Museum, aparatus &c have been going to destruction and nothing has been done, (except boarding up some windows.) I visited the College today in company with Surgeon Salter and Genl. Garrard, and besides the damage which has been occurring from leakage, during four months, many of our most valuable models, anatomical preparations, apparatus &c have been taken off to amount of several thousand dollars, articles to which cannot be replaced on this side of the Atlantic. The former chief of the Bureau (Col. Harmount) was under the impression that no depredations had been committed on the museum. &c but on my visit today, I saw that a great many articles had been removed since my last visit a few weeks ago. The proposition of Gen. Swayne I do not think a liberal one - viz a rent of $1,000 a year for three years or its equivalent in repairs. A building of this kind would be cheap, at present rates, at $3,000 a year, as common dwellings are renting from $1,500 to $2,500. still what I learn of Gen. Swayne I have no doubt his course is dictated by a high sense of duty. 
All I can therefore say under the circumstances is, that we are still willing to carry out the original agreement.