Reo, May 1 



Washington City 

 Subday, April 23t 1848 



Dear Engelmanm 



I assume that the 25 copies of the botanical Appendix, which 



I mailed one of these days, are in your hands. Besides those mentioned 



in your letter I have sent 25 to Prof. Torrey and 25 to Dr. Gray; for 



further distribution I still have about Jö copies here, which I shall 



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send to Germany. To Louis ; (your sumpathy for the little 



cactus ms de me laugh heartily) I mailed a copy with the last steamer,, 

 as cutting up and mailing in a letter would have been too costly. 

 The printing of my entire report with maps will be delivered to the 

 Senate one of these days, and I hope to be able to mail my copies al- 

 ready during this week. Of course, you will receive the first one. 

 My Claims will come up for final reading in the House next Friday. 

 If no further objection arises, it will pass to the Senate, and could 

 be finalized in a short time. In this case I would perhaps remain 

 here several weeks» If not, I shall travel to St. Louis immediate- 

 ly to get my affairs in order as soon as possible, and to go to Ger- 

 many. My money obligations lie upon me like a nightmare. If I were 

 free from them I would be already on european soil. However, the re- 

 publican armee seems to move into the field only now, and will/need 

 heads and arms ^ßöQM in a few months. 



This morning we received detailed reports from the home 

 country. To get my thouchts to paper is entirely impossible for me. 

 I am in a State of revolution, and every new message hits me as with 

 electrical strokes. I was not surprised, that the prussian republic 

 was nothing but wind, but where renain the south-CTerraans ? Hormanz(?) 

 with his corps weems to be the first to have proclaimed the German 

 Republic; may God give, that his first move may not fail, otherwise 

 all will fall in the hands of the professors and the "parliament 11 

 will be at an end. How much joy must this be for the old-german 



