
          Recd. [Received] Aug. [August] 6th - Ansd [Answered] 10th Aug [August]

on reference from NB.

Camp near San Elceario

June 8th. 1852

Dear Sir:

Your letters of Feby [February] 9th and March 20th
were received by the same mail May 20th. The reason
of my not getting your Feby [February] letter sooner has been on
account of the imperfections of our mail arrangements
in this country. Had it been mailed early enough
to have reach San Antonio by the 1st of March
I should have received [added: it] two months ago. But why
my letter of 12th Decr. [December] should have been so much longer
in reaching you than Mr. Schotts when transported
by the same mail is certainly odd and not referable
to the imperfections spoken of. Mr. Wright goes
home charged with the collections we have made this
season and to see after our interests as well as his
own in them and also those already sent. I suppose
Maj [Major] Emory would have rather sent Dr. Parry on
the same mission on account of his having been
more closely associated with him in the California
explorations but that he wanted him to observe
and note the geological position of the region
through which we have to pass the coming season
especially the mountainous country between Presedio [Presidio]
Del Norte and Eagle Pass and no one else in the Commission 
being so well qualified for that duty as Dr. Parry.
        