
          Ans'd.


 Baltimore Mar. 9. 1857


 My dear Sir


 If as I suppose by this time your professional
 [?] for the session are over and you can find 
 ten minutes to spare I will be very much indebted to
 you if you will once more do what you did so efficiently
 four years ago. The changes of President &
 Cabinet will be followed by changes in our [Gunton?] House
 and unless I can induce the powers at Washington 
 to look at the thing in its proper [c?] since one or other
 of the parties applying for my place as "Special Examiner
 of Drugs" on the plea of services rendered during the
 last political campaign will succeed in getting
 me out. Your opinion that the public interests in this
 matter may be safely entrusted to me will now as
 it did once before exert a very decided influence.
 And if you believe with me that the public interests
 will not be but served by applying the principle
 of rotation in office to this case where the duties are
 so strictly scientific and so entirely disconnected with
 all subdivisions of political parties, and can give me

        