
          Col. [Colonel] Graham could possibly have in withholding 
 them I can not divine. He can not 
 by any possibility derive any credits or other
 benefits from them without either going through
 your or Dr. Gray's hands. In either case 
 I hope to get the small degree of credit 
 I deserve for my fidelity and labor in collecting 
 them. Mr. Wright & Dr. Parry are both [crossed out: illegible] here 
 with me and we are every day nearly one way 
 or another getting hold of entire novelties. 
 Where Mr. Thurber is I can not tell. Maj. [Major] 
 Emory sent Mr. Ingraham & Dr. Parry in 
 search of the Commissioner who went as far 
 as the Pimos Village and have returned within 
 a day or two. We were most truly rejoiced 
 by their safe arrival as there had been reports 
 in circulation of their having been cut off by 
 the indians. They brought as word that 
 the Com'r. [Commissioner] had embarked at Guaymas a
 little town in Sonora on the Californian 
 Gulf for San Diego, and that Dr. Webb and 
 Mr. Thurber had passed through the Pimos 
 villages in January en route for San Diego 
 also. It may be that Mr. Baillett intends 
 to come out with a full report of his 
 doings and to have a copious botanical 
 appendix but that he intends to include my 
 plants with Mr. Thurber is more than I can say 
        