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passet! through Philadelphia, I could of course not make use 

 of the Philadelphia lettres« However the recomnendation to Sehe - 

 ker-Mason to whom I have not yet presented myself , I will deliver 

 one of these days, 



This evening is official reeeption at the president f s. As 

 the weather is quite unfavorable however I shall postpone a Visit 

 f or another time, Sinoe I have been here there has been nuch snow 

 and freezing, On Christmas day was specially stormy weather, and 

 I spent the entire day in my room sorting my papers, a^d occupying 

 myself with edifying thoughts of money and no money». Besides lo- 

 cal strangers I met several aquaintanoes from St »Louis: Col KsncMfiqt 



Bogy, Cöl.Grinostay, Sen, Mc Pherson Capt. Weightman,. 



Col, Harney and Gen. Quittman and Shields arrived here yesterday. 

 I called on Shields today, but he was not ay home, and I shall sro 

 again, 



Yesterday morning I reeeived a letter from Mr. Stangel of 

 Mine-la-Motte and a wire from you.dated St, Louis 26th Dec.,nailed 

 from New York on the 27th Dec,,where I had made provisions^that all 

 letters directed there for raeybe transferred here. The words of 

 the telegram were with exception of ray name quite proper (correct), 

 and no telegram is needed to demOlish that, The m&ntioned papers 

 about botany I expect therefor in a few days. In reading through 

 a report of the younger Abert von Benti Fort to the Canadian 

 ( the following is not legible. I would expect the word Pluss (ri- 

 ver) but cannot deeipher several words, E.B,) , {fcxxxx&xx&tissHxscsnex 

 xxxxxxxxxxxxx&&gfcggyx±jcgx&igx ®mKfrfca ^ that 

 he named a quite cactus t which you had named Opuntia ar- 



borescens, Cactus Peruvianus; he says that the wood is permeated 

 with holes and looks like H carved work M . Also, he calls the pinus 

 with the pinones^P. monophyllus, . 



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