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me, it is not unlikely that I may be in Washington 
early next month. I think you cannot expect E. 
and myself before about Thanksgiving Day, when if 
she should have recovered we shall have one reason 
more than usual for returning thanks to the Author of 
all good. You did not, it appears, think it a matter 
of sufficient consequence to say anything about my 
contemplated voyage; or to offer even an opinion 
about the matter. Perhaps you thought that, like 
most people, I only asked advice after T had cial up 
my own mind; and you are not far from correct in 
this supposition. Still I should have been glad to 
know that you take some interest in the matter. 
As soon as anything is determined upon at head- 
quarters I will let you know. .. . 
March 21, 1837. 
Since I wrote you last I have been to Washington. 
I was there at the inauguration and for a few days 
afterwards. We were not sent for by the Secretary 
of the Navy, so we had to bear our own traveling ex- 
penses, which were not small. When the secretary 
chooses to convene us, which he seems in no great 
hurry to do, we shall probably be directed to meet at 
Philadelphia, or perhaps at New York. There seems 
to be no doubt but that we shall be here until July. 
As they do not choose to advance us any pay yet, 
money will be very scarce with me for a month or two 
at least. My engagement at the Lyceum terminated 
at the close of their year, that is, on the last Monday 
of last month. So, although I occupy my rooms here 
until the first of May, I draw no salary. 
