If any of or all these publications would be acceptable to you, authority will be given for exchanging them upon the terms indicated in your letter, and I shall be happy to be the organ of communication in this interchange should you think proper to transmit any publications equivalent: so far at least as the before stated collections of the library institution will supply it.
At any event I shall be gratified by having it in my power to lay before the committee any communication you may think proper to address to me.
I am, sir, with high respect, your obedient servant,
Wm H. Richardson,
Secretary of the com. of Virginia, and ex officio librarian.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
From the Regents of the university of the state, trustees of the State Library.
Albany, June 21, 1845.
M. Alex. Vattemare,