Ree. July llth Ans. July l6 Washington D.C. 



July 5th 1855 



With Adams & Co, .Express follows 

 a small box with the cones, expe- 

 dited at the same time. 



Most treasured Friend : 



Until today I believed that I would return to St. 



Louis, only the when appeared doubtful. That was the reason 



that I did not send the cones to you earlier, because with 



the people of the Congress you can't get anywhere, they have 



too little sense and too much intelligenee ( the pointed 



kind that never works) to drag such a monster with them. 



Besides t^ere were no expenses involved. w Yesjwith delight^ 



if I may show the cones on the trip to my aquaintances** , such 



was one of the answers. Most outspoken was Phelps, saying 



he knew too little about St. Louis to undertake such delive- 



ries.This I cannot hold against him because he is the poli- 



tical shepherd in Springfield and has no relation to the St. 



Louis sheep in case he would cause a hole with his shears. 



This one can see well here in Washington at the time of the 



wool market (Congress)/ Carefully the large wool traders ( 



the Cabinet) weigh the quality and qantity before the pay 



a Drize ( Hiring). 



I continue ever since quitfEly on my path without worry 



about my fellow beings in the crowd. - only this is remar- 



kable, that my work here is just as new as it was new in St. 



Louis. The topographical Bureau says M We never have seen any- 



thing like it ** . And if I may be honest, I must say the same,, 



namely, I never have seen this type of work in Europe.- The 



necessity forced me to bring a new System into being, the 



topographic landscape painting. - Through it a map becomes a 



painting and the painting can be used as a map. That I ^ see 



daily ever more, that the geometrical diseipline ( not even 



