beautiful little town. It is there the great works of Colts the revolver maker is and a great marble and quarring place and there where Samuel Goodridge senior's country place was. He may be allive yet. He was a man of about 60 when I left N.Y. last. The son the time of the transaction was in partners with his father but unfortunately for me I had not the signature of the firm but Mr Samuel Goodridge Junr who by all at the time was considered as chief of the firm, many heavey transaction having come on the father from China etc. He quietly got Sam out of the house and put his brother Eszra in place. The father altho considered a very wealthy man came very near a failure. Hartford is in the state of Conneticut hence writing me from Hartford, his father's place, where