April 11
My dear Alexander
I was too ill yesterday
with a nervous headache to write to 
you. I thank you for your [attention]
to [England] [] tells me for
an [?] the proof thats
of my article in [?]
of the [?]. []
will look closely to morrow & correct
the grammar as well as the [?]
[?]. I wrote the article in 
the course of a day & night very
hastily & trusted to the press to
amend it. 
I hope all are well. Why has
not May [answered] my last, or [?]
she intend to [?] me dead. How is
David. Does he dream badly [now]

from falling! I hope he has recovered.
Have you heard from [] []
[]. Mary quite won my
heart. Did May send [?] the
[?] or not. I got a letter from 
the ex-functionary the other day.
He is as lively as a cricket ap-
-parently. Polk has killed
me outright. I am glad that
you were placed beyond a 
[contigengy]. I am just getting
my [?] underway & I 
am going to lecture for the
people here in a week or so.
I will that [?] Selden has
been elected Mayor.
I hope to make a decent living.
Give my love to your Mother & May
not forgetting Old Dave.

Look closely to the proof. [?]
[with] [?] [?] to do I [?] sent
you. I mean by Polk killing me
that he has done his worse
& [be] [did] to [], to injure
my political influence & private
affairs in the [bargain] but
"[?] answer"
[?]
Ro Tyler

Alexander Gardiner Esq
No 143 Lafayette Place
New York