To the Same.

Cambridge, June 28, 1866.

... I did not tell you, I believe, that we were engaged on the business of removing the Nautical Almanac office from Cambridge to Washington. My share in the business was to get my present work forward as far as possible, so as to begin

on the first of July a new arrangement, by which I am to be allowed to reside in Cambridge, Northampton, or the North Pole, if I please, and to take work “by the piece,” instead of a salary. This will be much more profitable to me, as it gives me more to do.